- Quotes by Henry Clay Work
“Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the steeple strikes one”. - Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England”. - Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
“The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason”. - Quotes by Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse
“It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don’t hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains”. - Quotes by Thornton Wilder
“The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so”. - Quotes by Oscar Wilde
“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. Children begin by loving their parents. Aftera time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Women have become so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. You don’t seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none”.
- Quotes by Mae West
“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for a an institution yet”. - Quotes by Artemus Ward
“[On Brigham Young, Mormon leader] He is dreadfully married. He’s the most married man I ever saw in my life”. - Quotes by Peter De Vries
“There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you”. - Quotes by Mark Twain
“In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?” - Quotes by Count Leo Tolstoy
“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. - Quotes by James Thomson
“Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read: And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed”.
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