family Quotes

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

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.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.