Subject: Family (Page 17)

Never let a child wearing Superman pajamas sleep on the top bunk.

It's better to go when you have to go – than to go and find you've already gone.

In case it is one of mine.

(1785 – 1859) Boston boot maker & probation reformer

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

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Baby: Nine months interest on a small deposit.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

(1814 – 1882) American clergyman

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

(1975 – ) actor, director, screenwriter & producer

[My mother] is the only woman in the world who makes gravy with the Rolaids crushed right into it.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had… so he sent me to a girls school.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

I like children… if they’re properly cooked.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian, television host, actress, & author

My father is schizophrenic, but he’s good people.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Insanity doesn’t run in my family; it gallops.

(1904 – 1986) English-American actor

Family reunions are when relatives gather from all over to be reminded why they scattered in the first place.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

He’s going around putting little covers over the electrical outlets and all that stuff, and I’m like, ‘How the kids going to learn about electricity, huh?’

(1964 – ) American writer, stand-up comedian, actress, television host

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

Kids in back seats cause accidents, accidents in back seats cause kids.

As a child my parents said they believed in Santa Claus but that I didn’t exist.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I wasn’t really that informed about the two-year-old; oh, I’d read about them, and occasionally I’d see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter