“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

“That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.”

“Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups”

“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again”

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”

“Grown ups are certainly very strange.”