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 other quotes from Robert Frost
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. 9 sayings from Lawrence Welk
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. 11 quotes from Clare Boothe Luce
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. 3 quotes from Ring Lardner
I talked about my family, my family's so important. 5 more quotes from Jim Valvano
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. 9 more quotes from Lawrence Welk
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. 9 thoughts from Anthony Trollope
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. 42 views from Josh Billings
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 more quotes from Patrick Henry
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. 9 quotes from John Cheever
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. 45 views from Bertrand Russell
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. 10 wisdom & wit from Novalis
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. 13 other quotes from Fred Allen
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 other quotes from Patrick Henry
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. 8 more sayings from Joseph Brodsky
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 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. 8 more quotes from Bobby Darin
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. 14 quotes from Joseph Joubert
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. 8 other sayings from Paul Lynde
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 left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. 20 other quotes from Christopher Lasch
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction. 20 other sayings from Christopher Lasch
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. 6 sayings from Ashley Montagu
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. 20 other sayings from Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. 20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on. 14 quotes 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 other quotes from David Ogilvy
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 more thoughts from Reinhold Niebuhr
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
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. 11 more views 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 quotes from George Orwell
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. 14 quotes from Andre Maurois
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
I would rather start a family than finish one. 18 wisdom & wit from Don Marquis
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. 3 views from Gracie Allen
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. 115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
The family is the school of duties - founded on love. 4 quotes 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 other sayings from Lyndon B. Johnson
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
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. 3 wisdom & wit from Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. 3 sayings from Alex Haley
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. 8 sayings from Charles Kuralt
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. 2 quotes from Margaret Sanger
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. 24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. 27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. 10 other views from Robert Benchley
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! 6 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 more quotes from Cyril Connolly
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 21 views from Leo Tolstoy
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
Actors are one family over the entire world. 30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love. 5 quotes from Michael Landon
The family is the nucleus of civilization. 25 more thoughts from Will Durant
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. 2 thoughts from Grace Kelly
The family is the first essential cell of human society. 9 quotes from Pope John XXIII
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 thoughts from Gene Tierney
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 more quotes from Vivien Leigh
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. 52 more views from George Eliot
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. 9 quotes from Pope John XXIII
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. 14 more views from Heinrich Heine
A man should never neglect his family for business. 23 quotes from Walt Disney
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. 23 views from Walt Disney
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. 5 other quotes from Anwar Sadat
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
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. 46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
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 views from Willa Cather
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. 3 other quotes from Cary Grant
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. 24 wisdom & wit from W. C. Fields
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. 2 views from Frank Knox
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. 2 quotes from Christopher Love
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. 21 quotes from George Burns
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. 2 more thoughts from J. Edgar Hoover
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
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. 32 other views from Michel de Montaigne
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. 32 more wisdom & wit 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 views from Erma Bombeck
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. 45 sayings from John Ruskin
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. 31 views from Gertrude Stein
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. 33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. 31 more wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. 8 wisdom & wit from Dwight L. Moody
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