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None but a mule denies his family.
-Arabic Proverb
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All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
-Chinese Proverb
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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
-Chinese Proverb
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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
-Chinese Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
-Chinese Proverb
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A small family is soon provided for.
-English Proverb
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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
-Yiddish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
-Yiddish Proverb
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
-Yiddish Proverb
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
-George Ade
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The family is the school of duties... founded on love.
-Felix Adler
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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.
-Aesop
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.
-Ruth Nanda Anshen
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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.
-Hannah Arendt
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Cruel is the strife of brothers.
-Aristotle
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
-Richard Bach
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
-Francis Bacon
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
-Anita Baker
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
-Stella Benson
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He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
-Nicolas Bentley
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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Proverbs 18:19
-Bible
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
-Erma Bombeck
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Books about Family
