In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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