God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

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

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.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.