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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.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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.

—Robert Frost, 1939

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

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

—André Gide, 1897

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

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

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942

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