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

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

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

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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

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.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.