Budding Optimist Gifts

'Too expensive, too long, sounds boring, the jacket is lousy...'

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

Two children are running lemonade stands outside their home; one stand is more popular than the other.

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

SALE

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

Building a Shelter

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

I need to set upmy own company.

'My allowance isn't much - but I have a great benefits package!'

The wrecking crew!

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

"Dad, this is Wendy, she's going to re-negotiate my allowance!"

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

3 cents glass - Exact change please, seller can't count.

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

LEMONADE 50 CENTS, NOW HIRING, 'Okay, you're hired -- now, I want you to forget everything you learned in pre-school.'

The early days of Warren Buffett.

'Talk about stuck-up! -- he has Masterpiece Theatre action figures!'

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

'We would deliver if we could cross the street.'

'I know that other kids manage on ?5 pocket money - but their parents don't charge them to watch any television programme their parents don't happen to approve off!'

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

'Here's your lemonade and here's some descriptive literature about my franchising opportunities.'

"Forget the allowance. I'm getting more than I need from venture capital."

'Birthdays are like life...the more you have, the more illuminated you become.'

Investment advice from father to son:"Learn to walk and then learn to invest. I'm depending on you to look after me when I grow old."

'Could I trade all of this for more of that?'

Homework Help and Homework Eaten Stands

A child busking