Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.
¶ "Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue?" (1940)
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971) American poet
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.
¶ "Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue?" (1940)
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
¶ (Attributed)
Quoted in Reader’s Digest (Jun 1967)
Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
¶ (Attributed)
Too clever is dumb.
¶ (Attributed)
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