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

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Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

2. "Better single than sorry."

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

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Other categories: Oration and Silence

4. "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"

Other categories: Youth and Age

5. "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"

Other categories: Marriage

6. "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

Other categories: Work and Laziness

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

Victor Borge

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

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Other categories: Normality and Madness

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

Quentin Crisp

Other categories: Time and Passing

10. "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"

Other categories: Youth and Age

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

John Wilmot

Other categories: Marriage

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other categories: Marriage

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

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Other categories: Human

14. "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"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

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

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Youth and Age

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

William Golding

Other categories: Youth and Age

17. "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

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

Virginia Satir

Other categories: Youth and Age -:- Education

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

Michael Harrington

Other categories: Human -:- Life and Death

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

Norman Douglas, "South Wind"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

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

Neil Kurshan

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

Phyllis Diller

Other categories: Youth and Age

23. "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

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

Edward Young, "The Revenge"

Other categories: Life and Death

25. "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

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

English proverb

Other categories: Richness and Money

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

Jewish proverb

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

William Feather

Other categories: Youth and Age

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

Themistocles

Other categories: Authority, Government

30. "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"

31. "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

32. "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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sophocles

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

Ruby Manikan

Other categories: Education

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

Peter De Vries

37. "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

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

proverb

Other categories: Various

39. "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

40. "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

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

Chinese proverb

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

Nora Ephron, "Scribble Scrabble"

Other categories: Various

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

Giuseppe Mazzini

Other categories: Patriotism

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

Bernadette McAliskey

Other categories: Law and Crime

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

Angela Carter, "Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings"

Other categories: Various

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

Phyllis Diller

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

E. B. White

Other categories: Peace and War

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

Russian proverb

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

49. "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..."

50. "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..."

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