Ring Lardner on family

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

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.

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

Bill Cosbyborn 1937

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937