Mark Twain Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

When you have girl children they torture you!

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.

I care about family issues.

I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

A daughter is more difficult than a rose.

The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.