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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

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

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

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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