Relationships and Family

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

I played with my grandfather a lot when I was a kid. He was dead, but my parents had him cremated and put his ashes in an Etch-a-Sketch.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

I wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted?

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.