Family Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
The family . . . home of all social vices, where children are taught to tell their first lie; the charitable institution for all lazy women.
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Swedish dramatist
The family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Ugo Betti (1892-1953) Italian playwright
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) American anthropologist
He that hath wife and children have given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese aphorism
If Absolute Sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
Mary Astell (1666-1731) English feminist writer
Be kind to your mother-in-law, and if necessary pay for her board at some good hotel.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
James G. Frazer (1854-1941) Scottish classicist, anthropologist
If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.
Ed (E. W.) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist
For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) English poet, lyricist
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Charles Schulz (b. 1922) American cartoonist
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
I advise thee to visit thy relations and friends; but I advise thee not to live too near to them.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.
The Captain, Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
