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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

C. Northcote Parkinson


Category: Family and Loneliness

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1. "It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there."

Elsie de Wolfe, "The House in Good Taste"

Other categories: Woman and Man


2. "Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority."

Edward Young, "The Revenge"

Other categories: Life and Death


3. "A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there."

George Bernard Shaw

Other categories: Art and Culture


4. "Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."

English proverb

Other categories: Richness and Money


5. "Little children disturb your sleep, big ones your life."

Jewish proverb


6. "Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."

William Feather

Other categories: Youth and Age


7. "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

Themistocles

Other categories: Authority, Government


8. "Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

Charles Dickens, "Martin Chuzzlewit"


9. "A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do."

Lois Wyse, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Other categories: Youth and Age


10. "Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

Lois Wyse, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Other categories: Youth and Age


11. "Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children."

George Bernard Shaw


12. "Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

Sophocles


13. "If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."

Ruby Manikan

Other categories: Education


14. "There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you."

Peter De Vries


15. "A mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in one house are like two cats in a bag."

Jewish proverb

Other categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man


16. "Young children step on your feet, older children step on your heart."

proverb

Other categories: Various


17. "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

Harry S. Truman


18. "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Other categories: Youth and Age


19. "He who can be a good son will be a good father."

Chinese proverb


20. "A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it."

Nora Ephron, "Scribble Scrabble"

Other categories: Various


21. "The Family is the Country of the heart."

Giuseppe Mazzini

Other categories: Patriotism


22. "There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - if the term is to be used at all."

Bernadette McAliskey

Other categories: Law and Crime


23. "Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast."

Angela Carter, "Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings"

Other categories: Various


24. "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

Phyllis Diller


25. "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. "

E. B. White

Other categories: Peace and War


26. "Small children give you headache; big children heartache."

Russian proverb

Other categories: Health and Alcohol


27. "Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have."

Fred G. Gosman, "How to Be a Happy Parent..."


28. "The mortgage is still in our name but, increasingly, the house is theirs. One diaper, one vote."

Fred G. Gosman, "How to Be a Happy Parent..."


29. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

Irish proverb

Other categories: Love -:- Woman and Man


30. "The house with no child in it is a house with nothing in it."

Welsh proverb


31. "In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship."

Jean Marzollo, "Your Maternity Leave"

Other categories: Marriage


32. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

John Ruskin

Other categories: Love -:- Education


33. "Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids."

Roseanne Barr


34. "Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

Margaret Mead


35. "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."

Doug Larson

Other categories: Youth and Age


36. "The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed."

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37. "A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."

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Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy


38. "Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time."

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

Other categories: Various


39. "There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage."

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

Other categories: Marriage


40. "A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

Honoré De Balzac

Other categories: Pain and Tears


41. "Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined."

John Abbott, "The Mother at Home"

Other categories: Richness and Money


42. "A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Other categories: Egoism


43. "Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"


44. "The real question isn’t whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved."

Stephanie Martson, "The Magic of Encouragement"


45. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Denis Waitly

Other categories: Youth and Age -:- Education


46. "This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle


47. "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Jane Howard, "Families"


48. "Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

Bill Cosby


49. "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

Leo J. Burke


50. "A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."

Henry Louis Mencken

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