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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
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Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our
ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the
spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
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Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with
parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with
closet space.
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When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are
family happinesses.
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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In
our house, however, it was sorry.
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and
being there.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all
their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it
a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I
have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that
allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call
you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why
are you waiting?
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The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never
quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
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In time of test, family is best.
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution
I know that works is the family
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men,
women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel
that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent
unspeakable memories.
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We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little
sometimes, but they never break.
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of
Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot
of the mass of mankind.
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The great gift of family life is to be intimately
acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to,
had life not done it for you.
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Other things may change us, but we start and end with the
family.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon
grow color-blind.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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