Subject: Family (Page 32)

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

Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.

My son is 21… he’ll be 22 if I let him.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove Illinois; when I was twelve, I found them.

(1956 – ) American comedian

When I was a boy, my mother wore a mood ring; when she was in a good mood it turned blue… in a bad mood, it left a big red mark on my forehead.

comedian

What’s the point of having children if you can’t buy their love?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

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

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

There is no reciprocity; men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Anna Haycraft (1932 – 2005) English writer & essayist

Out of the mouths of babes comes cereal.

My mother said it was simple to keep a man: you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom; I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.

(1956 – ) American model & actress

You know, it was only after my father showed me what I would inherit that I struggled to keep him alive.

(1967 – ) English comedian

Parents: The one thing children wear out faster than shoes.

I met this guy who said he loved children, then I found out he was on parole for it.

American comedian & writer

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus, and unfortunately, so did my parents.

(1973 – ) American stand-up comedian