Subject: Family (Page 22)

My wife, she’s carrying our first child… he’s eight, the lazy little…

(1968 – ) English comedian & actor

Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

(1970 – ) American stand-up comedian & voice actor

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers; good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

(1952 – ) comedian

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.

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

A child will not spill on a dirty floor.

My mum's so pessimistic, that if there was an Olympics for pessimism… she wouldn't fancy her chances.

British-Asian comedian

Me and my dad used to play tag, he’d drive!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Life: A span of time of which the first half is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

No matter how often you trade dinner or other invitations with in-laws, you will lose a small fortune in the exchange.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

I really wanted kids when I was in my early 20s but I could just never… lure them into my car; no, I'm kidding… I don’t have a license.

(1980 – ) Australian comedian

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

(1955 – ) American poet, essayist & memoirist

Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

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

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Cycling's a good thing for the youngsters, because it keeps them off the streets.