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

- Carlo Collodi

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.

- Carlo Collodi

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.

- Carlo Collodi

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

- Carlo Collodi

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

- Carlo Collodi

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

- Carlo Collodi

In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is t…

- Carlo Collodi

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

- Carlo Collodi

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

- Carlo Collodi