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He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

—Benjamin Franklin, 1786

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1919

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

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

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

—Philip Roth, 1969

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

—Paul Johnson, 1989

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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.

—August Strindberg, 1886