“Love well, whip well.”
“Don't set your wit against a child.”
“Let your children go if you want to keep them.”
“When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.”
“You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.”
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
“The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.”
“My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.”
“If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.”
“Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.”
“Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.”
“Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”
“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.”
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
“Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.”
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
“To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.”
“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.”
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
“We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.”
“A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.”
“Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.”
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
“A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.”
“How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.”
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”