Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCQuotes
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900The 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, 1939By 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, 1955There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Family! 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, 1886If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968