parenthood

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.

To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Who doesn't desire his father's death?

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

When one has not had a good father one must create one.