Family

(173 votes)   Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(172 votes)   Then Bob proposed: 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Dickens

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(172 votes)   What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Clarissa Graves

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(170 votes)   If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Quentin Crisp
1908-, British Author

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(166 votes)   That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

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(137 votes)   Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(118 votes)   It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

Alvaro de Solva

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(89 votes)   Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Jimmy Buffet
American Songwriter, Singer

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(82 votes)   Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(80 votes)   There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

T. S. Eliot

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(80 votes)   With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public,'' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Wyndham Lewis
1882-1957, British Author, Painter

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(76 votes)   Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Ivy Baker Priest

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(74 votes)   I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(73 votes)   A small family is soon provided for.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(72 votes)   If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance

Anonymous

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