Gertrude Stein on family

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.

Ring Lardner1885–1933

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937