Family

(68 votes)   All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(67 votes)   count your life by smiles; not tears; count your age by friends not years.

reader girl

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(67 votes)   The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.

Florence King
1936-, American Author, Critic

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(65 votes)   I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(62 votes)   Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jane Howard

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(60 votes)   The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family

Giuseppe Mazzini

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(59 votes)   Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schultz
1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts''

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(59 votes)   Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille
1738-1813, French Poet

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(58 votes)   When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(57 votes)   A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Charles Swindoll
American Pastor, Author

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(57 votes)   One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Jonathan Raban
1942-, British Author, Critic

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(56 votes)   He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(56 votes)   I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so

Samuel Butler

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(56 votes)   Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

Lawrence Kubie

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(55 votes)   A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Legouve Pere

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