They say your family is something you are born into and not a matter of choice. So you make the best of what you have – the good as well as the not so good. If you have a collection of warm and funny sayings about your family it will make you chuckle when you are feeling down. You can use these to liven up the most dull and boring of family moments. But remember that levity and humor only work when you temper it with love, warmth and genuine affection.
If you feel that you are the only one who has mixed feelings with regard to family then this could not be further from the truth. The fact is most of us no matter from how ideal family we have and however stable a family life we have will feel that small feeling of anger or even frustration about the way things are. The important thing here is to acknowledge and see it with a humorous eye rather than harboring feelings of guilt or resentment. Here is wishing that you would find these humorous and sometimes factual quotes enjoyable.
Make use of them to crack a joke or express what you want to say or when you feel that the situation needs lightening and you are at an absolute loss of words. Make sure that you pick an expression or quote that is fitting of the occasion.
Funny Quotes About Family
- My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap….He was in the electric chair.
- I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.
- To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
- I am an only child. I have one sister.
- If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you’ll be going, ‘you know, we’re alright. We are dang near royalty.
- Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible…and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
- The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.
- The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - I never forget my wife’s birthday. It’s usually the day after she reminds me about it.
- The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
- In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
- In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.
- Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
- Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
- It is easier for a father to have children than The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Never raise your hand to your children, it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn’t make fun of another man’s cross-eyed aunt.
- The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions
- More boys would follow in their father’s footsteps if they weren’t afraid of being caught
- The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
- The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
- I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
- Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back
- Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
- Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
- After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.
- Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
