Quotes about family

Diligence is the mother of good luck

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York

The Child is Father of the Man

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, Homo ventrambulans.

RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

We readily bow to antiquity, but not to posterity. It is only a father that does not grudge talent to his son.