Subject: Family (Page 30)

Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Kin: An affliction of the blood.

You know a man is a redneck if his mama keeps a spit-can on the ironin' board.

(1926 – 1998) American country comedian

Baby: Nine months interest on a small deposit.

Blood's not thicker than money.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I love my family, but that is no reason why I need to acknowledge them in public.

(1929 – ) English actress & singer

The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, “We want five thousand dollars or you’ll see your kid again.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.

Bernadette: Everyone’s a better mom than me.

(1981 – ) Indian-English actor

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn’t because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia; let them walk to school like I did!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Except that right-side-up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Fathers should neither be seen nor heard; that is the only proper basis for family life.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I’m so ugly – my father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

My father only hit me once – but he used a Volvo.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

Heredity: The bad traits a child gets from the other side of the family.

With the birth of a child you lose two novels.

(1955 – ) Scottish writer

Peanut butter and lamb chops were not foods that had ever been a significant part of our life before pregnancy.

(1957 – ) American comedian, actor & writer