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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
6 more quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
5 quotes from Michael Landon
Actors are one family over the entire world.
30 more wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
5 wisdom & wit from Vivien Leigh
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
52 sayings from George Eliot
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
12 quotes from Gene Tierney
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
9 quotes from Pope John XXIII
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
25 other quotes from Will Durant
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
9 other thoughts from Pope John XXIII
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
2 thoughts from Grace Kelly
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
30 more quotes from Gustave Flaubert
A man should never neglect his family for business.
23 sayings from Walt Disney
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
46 quotes from George Santayana
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
5 quotes from Anwar Sadat
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
14 thoughts from Heinrich Heine
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
23 sayings from Walt Disney
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
9 quotes from Willa Cather
I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?
14 quotes from Loretta Young
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
21 more thoughts from George Burns
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
3 other thoughts from Cary Grant
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
2 more quotes from Frank Knox
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
2 other quotes from J. Edgar Hoover
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
2 quotes from Christopher Love
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
13 thoughts from Chanakya
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
24 views from W. C. Fields
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
32 views from Michel de Montaigne
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
33 sayings from Erma Bombeck
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
32 thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
31 views from Gertrude Stein
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
7 other quotes from Walter Bagehot
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
8 sayings from Dwight L. Moody
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
31 wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
45 other quotes from John Ruskin
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
33 sayings from Erma Bombeck
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
5 views from Jim Valvano
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.
50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
3 views from Ring Lardner
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
9 more wisdom & wit from Lawrence Welk
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
9 quotes from Lawrence Welk
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
11 other thoughts from Clare Boothe Luce
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
42 sayings from Josh Billings
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
9 other sayings from Anthony Trollope
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
8 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Brodsky
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
45 more views from Bertrand Russell
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
52 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
10 views from Patrick Henry
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
10 quotes from Patrick Henry
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
13 other thoughts from Fred Allen
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
10 thoughts from Novalis
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
9 sayings from John Cheever
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
14 more quotes from Joseph Joubert
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
8 thoughts from Bobby Darin
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
20 wisdom & wit from Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
20 other quotes from Christopher Lasch
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
6 wisdom & wit from Ashley Montagu
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
20 sayings from Christopher Lasch
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
8 other quotes from Paul Lynde
I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
14 more sayings from Thomas Hardy
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
11 more wisdom & wit from David Ogilvy
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
11 thoughts from Thomas Mann
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
47 other wisdom & wit from George Orwell
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
14 quotes from Andre Maurois
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
I would rather start a family than finish one.
18 more quotes from Don Marquis
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
3 more quotes from Gracie Allen
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
14 wisdom & wit from Ogden Nash
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
4 thoughts from Felix Adler
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
24 more thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
3 quotes from Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
3 more quotes from Alex Haley
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
24 more sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
6 other quotes from O. Henry
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
15 quotes from Cyril Connolly
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
2 other views from Margaret Sanger
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
10 other quotes from Robert Benchley
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
8 quotes from Charles Kuralt