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

- 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

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

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

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

- Carlo Collodi

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I …

- Carlo Collodi

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

- 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