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

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.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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