Subject: Family

My old man was dumb, he picked a guy’s pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Baby: Morning caller, noonday crawler, midnight bawler.

My two sisters’ idea of birth control is apparently a bottle of tequila and the rhythm method of Barry White.

American comedian & television host

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot… but I always found them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

You might be a redneck if… your dad walks you to school because you’re in the same grade.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

A teen-ager out of sight is like a kite in the clouds; even though you can’t see it you feel the tug on the string.

writer

Children and [zippers] do not respond to force… except occasionally.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

Viagra has instructions: ‘Keep away from children’ — what kind of man do you think I am?

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

You know, it was only after my father showed me what I would inherit that I struggled to keep him alive.

(1967 – ) English comedian

Little League baseball is a good thing ’cause it keeps the parents off the streets, and it keeps the kids out of the house!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

(1922 – 1973) Israeli teacher & child psychologist

All the men in my family are bald, and all the women are hunchbacked – and they don’t know we’re bald.

comedian

Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Now the thing about having a baby – and I can’t be the first person to have noticed this – is that thereafter you have it.

(1922 – 2003) author & playwright