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
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
Author: Anonymous
Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without.
Author: Marcelene Cox
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Author: Samuel Butler
Bachelors’ wives and old maids’ children are always perfect.
Author: Nicolas Chamfort
Something you consider bad may bring out your child’s talents; something you consider good may stifle them.
Author: Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.
Author: Susan Cheever
I cannot bear the crying of children, but when my child cries, I don’t hear.
Author: Anton Chekhov
It is a great happiness to see our children rising round us, but from that good fortune spring the bitterest woes of man.
Author: Aeschylus (Fifth Century B.C.)
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Of course a platonic relationship is possible — but only between husband and wife.
Author: Anonymous, From Ladies’ Home Journal
Nobody knows how to manage a wife but a bachelor.
Author: George Colman The Elder
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Author: Peter De Vries
One was never married, and that’s his hell; Another is, and that’s his plague.
Author: Robert Burton
A spoiled child never loves his mother.
Author: Sir Henry Taylor
A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Author: Thomas Fuller
It is The fortune commonly of knavish children To have the loving’st mothers.
Author: Thomas Middleton
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
Author: Gloria Steinem
Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
Author: Adrienne Rich
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
Matrimony and bachelorhood are both of them at once equally wise and equally foolish.
Author: Samuel Butler
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Author: Mark Twain
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.
Author: Anton Chekhov
We all of us wanted babies — but did we want children?
Author: Eda J. Leshan
I love mankind — it’s people I can’t stand.
Author: Charles M. Schulz
The ever-alert, the conscientiously wakeful — how many fine things they fail to see.
Author: Norman Douglas