Subject: Family (Page 17)

Family Planning: The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.

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

Socialite: Whatever possessed you to be born in a place like Lowell, Massachusetts?

Whistler: I wished to be near my mother.

(1834 – 1903) American-born, British-based artist

You might be a redneck if… your parents met at a family reunion.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Father’s Feedback: The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.

As a family we couldn't decide whether to have grandma buried or cremated… in the end, we let her live.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

"It’s the violence in the media that's the problem…" no, the problem is a lot of your kids are dicks and you won’t do shit about it.

(1967 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

I would like to give these kids a good home; in fact, there’s one a few miles away from here…

(1957 – 2008) American comedian & actor

May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.

cartoon character, Peanuts, Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000) cartoonist

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.

Parenthood: Feeding the mouth that bites you.

White babies are disgusting… they’re like regular babies that aren’t ripe yet.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor

I read somewhere that 26 is too old to still live with your parents; it was on a note, in my room.

comedian

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

Baby: Nine months interest on a small deposit.

What's the advantage of having a kid at 49?… you can both be in diapers at the same time?

stand-up comedian

Can’t have a favorite, [child] I don’t… I treat my main son and the other two exactly the same way.

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality

Genealogist: One who traces your family history back as far as your money will go. 

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress