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 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 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 more 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 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 quotes from Anthony Trollope
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
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 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 other wisdom & wit from Novalis
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. 13 thoughts 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 more views from Patrick Henry
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. 8 other views 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 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. 8 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 quotes 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 more 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 views from Christopher Lasch
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction. 20 wisdom & wit from Christopher Lasch
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. 6 quotes from Ashley Montagu
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. 20 more quotes 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 thoughts 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 views 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 wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. 20 more quotes from Christopher Lasch
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. 11 sayings 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 views 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 sayings 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from Ogden Nash
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. 3 sayings from Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. 3 quotes 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 sayings from Margaret Sanger
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. 24 other sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. 27 thoughts from Kin Hubbard
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. 10 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 thoughts 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 other sayings from Cyril Connolly
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 21 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Rutherford B. Hayes
Actors are one family over the entire world. 30 other wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. 100 quotes 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 quotes from Will Durant
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. 2 views from Grace Kelly
The family is the first essential cell of human society. 9 thoughts 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 more 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 views from Vivien Leigh
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. 52 sayings from George Eliot
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
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. 14 other thoughts from Heinrich Heine
A man should never neglect his family for business. 23 more quotes from Walt Disney
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. 23 other thoughts from Walt Disney
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. 5 more views 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Willa Cather
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. 3 quotes from Cary Grant
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. 24 quotes from W. C. Fields
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. 2 sayings from Frank Knox
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. 2 wisdom & wit from Christopher Love
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. 21 other wisdom & wit from George Burns
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. 2 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. 32 more quotes 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 other quotes from Erma Bombeck
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. 45 quotes from John Ruskin
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. 31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. 33 views from Erma Bombeck
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. 31 more quotes 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Walter Bagehot