Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.