Family
Quotes
"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."
(Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author)
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"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
(John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (b. 1920), Polish ecclesiastic, pope)
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"We are born into them, marry into them, even create them among the people we love. They come large and extended... or small and nuclear. But whatever their size or wherever they live, strong families give us the nurturance and strength we need in order to survive."
(Andrea Davis (20th century), U.S. author)
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"Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle."
(T. Berry Brazelton (20th century), U.S. author, pediatrician)
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"Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour's household, and, underneath, another - secret and passionate and intense - which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him."
(Willa Cather (1873-1947), U.S. novelist)
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"In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit."
(Marge Kennedy and Janet Spencer King (20th century), U.S. writers)
Jokes
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- What made you decide to put off your wedding by two days?
- Well, you see. I figured it out that our silver wedding anniversary would come on a Saturday, and I always play golf on Saturdays.
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A wealthy man told his friend one day that he was 60 years old, and asked: "Would it be better if I told a young lady whom I'd like to marry that I am only 50?"
"I'll be perfectly frank with you," his friend replied. "Your chances would be better if you would tell her you were 75."
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They say the sergeant married her because her uncle left her a million. But he says he would have married her no matter who left it to her.
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"Jack, dear," said the bride, "let's try to make the other people think we are have been married a long time."
"All right, honey. But do you think you can carry both suitcases?"
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"H'm! I don't like the look of your wife at all, Mr. Blunt," said the doctor, after he had examined the patient.
"Neither do I," answered Blunt. "but still she's good wife, and looks after the children and the house well - so I can't grumble, I suppose."
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A life insurance agent called upon a big businessman at the end of a busy day. When the agent entered the room, the big man said:
"You ought to feel honored, highly honored, young man. Do you know that today I have refused to see seven insurance men?"
"I know," said the agent. "I'm them!"
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