Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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

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

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.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

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