• Love well, whip well.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 135 reads

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• My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 12 votes · 11 reads

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• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 161 reads

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• Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 120 reads

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• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 22 reads

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• Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 134 reads

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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 90 reads

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• The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 198 reads

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• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 70 reads

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• The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 184 reads

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• The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too ha

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 56 reads

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• The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 74 reads

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• The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 18 votes · 191 reads

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• The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 30 reads

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• There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

  

  Peter Abelard

  TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 23 reads

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• This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.6 · 5 votes · 191 reads

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• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 53 votes · 145 reads

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• To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.8 · 22 votes · 102 reads

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• We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 169 reads

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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.2 · 10 votes · 59 reads

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• You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.0 · 31 votes · 162 reads

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