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Family Quotes - Page 18

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1168, Delphi Classics

The family is more sacred than the state.

Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI (1997). “Christian Marriage”