Life is like a horrible Christmas gift; you never asked for it yet you still have to put it to good use or risk offending the people who gave it to you.

Just wait til you're older; you'll start telling younger people, "Just wait til you're older..." too.

That apple didn’t fall from the tree and I think it landed right on Mom’s head!

He’s a chip off the old block, I just don’t know which one!

Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had introduced her to an unexpected terrestrial paradise.

At this stage in my life, I've finally come to realize that I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.