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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

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