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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.