Subject: Family

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

comedian

A father is a banker provided by nature.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child; we can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them; my mother cleans them.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

A boy becomes a man when he stops asking his father for an allowance and requests a loan.

You don’t have favorites among your children but you do have allies.

(1975 – ) British novelist

Kids… I like kids, but I couldn’t eat a whole one.

My old man… I told him I'm tired of running around in circles… so he nailed my other foot to the floor.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn’t help me at all.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

When you’re a fat kid, you only get to be two things… funny and goalie.

(1980 – ) Canadian writer, comedian & political activist

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

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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

We've had bad luck with our kids… they've all grown up.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

You’re not famous until my mother has heard of you.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

(384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

I’ve wanted to have a baby for about five years, but she wants one forever.

(1968 – ) English comedian & actor

Parents: People who bear infants, bore teenagers, and board newlyweds.

Quiet: A state of household serenity which occurs before the birth of the first child and occurs again after the last child has left for college.