A normal adolescent isn’t a normal adolescent if he acts normal.
Author: Judith Viorst
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
Author: P. J. O’Rourke
The child is father of the man.
Author: William Wordsworth
Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.
Author: Charles Osgood
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
There’s no one more depressed than a happily married man.
Author: Mickey Rooney
A good father is a little bit of a mother.
Author: Lee Salk
Housework, if it’s done right, can kill you.
Author: John Skow
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Author: Gloria Steinem
If a man’s character is to be abused, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Author: Mark Twain
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Author: Gore Vidal
If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
We all of us wanted babies — but did we want children?
Author: Leshan
If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.
Author: Eda J. Leshan
Always remember … it’s matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Author: Clare Boothe Luce
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Author: Nancy Mitford
I’d always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.
Author: Katherine Mansfield
The wife should be inferior to the husband. That is the only way to insure equality between the two.
Author: Martial (First Century A.D.)
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
Author: Martial (First Century A.D.)
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason — there’s a reason.
Author: Molly Mcgee
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.
Author: Mignon Mclaughlin
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Author: Mignon Mclaughlin
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
Author: George Jessel
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
An obedient wife commands her husband.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother.
Author: Norman Douglas
The only good husbands stay bachelors; they’re too considerate to get married.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Author: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Author: Malcolm Forbes
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
Author: Marilyn French
A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.
Author: Zsa Zsa Gabor