Quotes About Innocence

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

When you're a kid, Kermit is Tom Hanks. He's Tom Hanks for kids or Jimmy Stewart for kids. He's truly the every man.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.