Family

(55 votes)   A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(55 votes)   As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Rose Macaulay

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(55 votes)   Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerner

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(55 votes)   Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

Ted Cook

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(54 votes)   As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live

Pope John Paul III

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(54 votes)   I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(53 votes)   "Five kids that's my only concern. I was a father before I became a man. Society don't comprehend. Callin me worthless, but I could purchase what they purchase, but I understand behind closed curtains you workin on being a man"

B.B. Gambini

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(53 votes)   There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(53 votes)   When I was a boy of fourteen

Mark Twain

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(52 votes)   As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Rose Macaulay
1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist

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(52 votes)   Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(52 votes)   Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

Tom Mason

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(52 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 fulfillment 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
1805-1872, Italian Patriot, Writer

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(52 votes)   The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(51 votes)   A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic

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