Infancy

Famous quotes containing the word infancy:

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy ... and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.”
—Agnes Repplier (1858–1950)

“I am as true as truth’s simplicity,
And simpler than the infancy of truth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)