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Category: Family and Loneliness

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1. "Anyone who has children is not the master of his own time."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Time and Passing

2. "With all this darkness round me I feel less alone."

Samuel Beckett, "Krapp`s Last Tape"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

3. "Chance makes our families, but choice makes our friends."

Anon.

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

4. "Better single than sorry."

Anon.

5. "Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."

Anon.

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

6. "It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."

Betty Ford, "The Last Word"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

7. "Marriage has its good side. It teaches you loyalty, forebearance, tolerance, self-restraint, and other valuable qualities you wouldn't need if you'd stayed single."

Allan Pease, "Why men don't Listen and Women can't read Maps"

Quotations about: Marriage

8. "I am never in such good company as when I am alone; I am never so busy as when I have nothing to do."

Scipio Africanus

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

9. "I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary."

Victor Borge

10. "Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

11. "People who are lonely are those who do not know what to do with the time when they are alone."

Quentin Crisp

Quotations about: Time and Passing

12. "With the cruelty of youth I allowed myself to be irritated by traits in my father which, in other elderly men, I have since regarded as lovable foibles."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Surprised By Joy"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

13. "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."

John Wilmot

Quotations about: Marriage

14. "If you fear loneliness, then don't get married."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Marriage

15. "One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Quotations about: Human

16. "Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

Willa Cather, "Shadows on the Rock"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

17. "Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Youth and Age

18. "Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of."

William Golding

Quotations about: Youth and Age

19. "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

Calvin Trillin

20. "Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."

Virginia Satir

Quotations about: Youth and Age -:- Education

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21. "Life is lived in common, but not in community."

Michael Harrington

Quotations about: Human -:- Life and Death

22. "Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

Norman Douglas, "South Wind"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

23. "Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone."

Neil Kurshan

24. "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

Phyllis Diller

Quotations about: Youth and Age

25. "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"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

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

Edward Young, "The Revenge"

Quotations about: Life and Death

27. "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

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

English proverb

Quotations about: Richness and Money

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

Jewish proverb

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

William Feather

Quotations about: Youth and Age

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

Themistocles

Quotations about: Authority, Government

32. "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"

33. "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"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

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

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

Quotations about: Youth and Age

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sophocles

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

Ruby Manikan

Quotations about: Education

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

Peter De Vries

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

Jewish proverb

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

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

proverb

Quotations about: Various

41. "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

42. "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"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

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

Chinese proverb

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

Nora Ephron, "Scribble Scrabble"

Quotations about: Various

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

Giuseppe Mazzini

Quotations about: Patriotism

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

Bernadette McAliskey

Quotations about: Law and Crime

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

Angela Carter, "Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings"

Quotations about: Various

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

Phyllis Diller

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

E. B. White

Quotations about: Peace and War

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

Russian proverb

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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