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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

—Philip Roth, 1969

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

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

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

—André Gide, 1897

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

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

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Rebecca West, 1959
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