A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
Gene Wilder

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
James Anthony Froude

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller

Dying people often become childish.
Georg Buchner

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.
Meg White

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Jean Ingelow

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
Rita Dove

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Frederick Buechner

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
Kate Greenaway

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Matthew Hale

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson