"Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"By the time a man realises that his father was usually right, he has a son who thinks he's usually wrong." - Anonymous

"I inherited my ability from both my parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not making it." - Anonymous

"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own." - Aristotle

"The joys of parents are secret: and so are their griefs and fears." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin." - Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children." - Clarence S. Darrow

"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent." - Bette Davis, The Lonely Life

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." - Edward, Duke of Windsor, quoted in Look

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own." - Doug Larson