family Quotes

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.