Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

10 Short Funny Quotes about Marriage

Marriage 1. There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. ~ Clint Eastwood

2. Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. ~ Euripides

3. One man's folly is another man's wife. ~ Helen Rowland

4. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~ Socrates

5. I know nothing about sex because I was always married. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

6. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

7. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ~ Katharine Hepburn

8. Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets. ~  Ogden Nash

9. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~ Rita Rudner

10. My wife says I never listen to her.  At least I think that's what she said. ~ Author Unknown

Saturday, February 9, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Children

1. Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. ~ Bill Cosby

2. People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. ~ Bill Watterson

3. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ~ Clarence Darrow

4. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. ~ Groucho Marx

5. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~ Harry S Truman

6. You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. ~ John J. Plomp

7. Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes. ~ Lawana Blackwell,

8. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~ Leo J. Burke

9. If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. ~ Norman Douglas

10. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. ~ Peter Ustinov

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

10 Short Quotes about Father

1. It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~ Kent Nerburn

2. I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. ~ Adabella Radici

3. Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. ~ Victoria Secunda,

4. Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children. ~ Cindy Garner

5. There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. ~ Unknown Author

6. The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ~ Confucius

7. When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~ Jewish Proverb


8. A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9. It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ~ Anne Sexton

10. It's clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~ Gloria Steinem

10 Short Quotes about Mother

1. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~ Tenneva Jordan

2. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~ Mildred B. Vermont

3. OThe phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~ Jane Sellman

4. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~ Rajneesh

5. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~ Pearl S. Buck

6. Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~ Ambrose Bierce

7. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~ Honoré de Balzac

8. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~ Spanish Proverb

9.If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle

10. Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~ Lisa Alther

10 Short Quotes about Family

1. I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~ Fred Allen

2. Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~ Gail Lumet Buckley

3. Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~ Anthony Brandt

4. We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~ Marquise de Sévigné

5. In time of test, family is best. ~ Burmese Proverb

6. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~ Nancy Mitford

7. When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~ George Bernard Shaw

8. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~ Desmond Tutu

9. When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~ Joyce Brothers

10. A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~ Ogden Nash