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

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

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.

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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

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

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

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

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. 

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