Subject: Family (Page 9)

Incest is relatively boring.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

comedian

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.

(1819 – 1901) English monarch of the United Kingdom

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

(1957 – ) American comedian

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

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

The ambition of every small boy is to wash his mother’s ears.

You kids are disgusting! Standing around here all day, reeking of popcorn and lollipops.

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

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms.

(1949 – 2016) American comedian & television actor

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

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

Teacher: A disillusioned woman who used to think she liked children.

My wife’s not too smart; I told her our kids were spoiled… she said, “all kids smell that way.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

One year my parents got me Hide and Seek for Christmas.

(1968 – ) Welsh comedian

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