Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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.

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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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