Mark Twain Quotes on Family

5 quotes

  1. A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

  2. Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

  3. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  4. All you have to fear is your mother's cooking.

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

    #194 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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