Carlo Collodi Quotes

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25