For better, for worse?

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
 
Oscar Wilde

Be careful what you wish for

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. 

Dorothy Parker

     

Setting a good example for children

... takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather

'Tis the season?

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

Babies, reconsidered

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. 

Mae West

Rule of Engagement?

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Voltaire

Picture perfect?

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

Blessed indeed...

... Is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  

Lydia M. Child

Parenting reconsidered

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Law of domestic entropy?

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours. 

Lady Hasluck

Poster children?

Good girls like myself need subversion.

Janet Burroway

All great change in America...

...begins at the dinner table  
Ronald Reagan

Abstract thinking?

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot

Away with you

Go and never darken my towels again.

Groucho Marx

After a good dinner....

... one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives.

Oscar Wilde