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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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