“You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.”

“she: Before we got married you told me you were well-off. he: I was and I didn't know it.”

“Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.”

“Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.”

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.”

“There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”

“Being a dad is quite rewarding and even magical at times. It is our greatest chance to do something right in our lives that will keep making the world a brighter place even generations after we are...”

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?”

“Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that ones attitude toward ones father largely shaped ones attitude toward God.”