""None but a mule denies his family."--Anonymous
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."--John Bowring
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."--Benjamin Franklin
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."--Robert Frost
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."--Ed Howe
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."--Ogden Nash
"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."--Reinhold Niebuhr
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."--George Santayana
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."--George Bernard Shaw