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.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.