Family … the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
– August Strindberg
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- men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men. – Christina Escamilla
- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
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- Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. – Mae West
- Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? – HL Mencken
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- An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong. – GK Chesterton
- Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? – Groucho Marx
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- Dating someone exclusively for four months in New York is like four years in Anchorage. – Zack Love
- Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans. – Dennis Prager
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- A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
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- Lucy settled into August’s kitchen as if they were a family. – Susan Richards Shreve
- Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar… – William Faulkner
- Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home. – Anthony Liccione
- If women had power what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can? – Ursula K Le Guin
- The family was God’s idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution. – James C Dobson
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- Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own. – Susan C Young
- Life isn’t about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable – Heather Gillis
- When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
- I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn’t comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. – Marjane Satrapi
- The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church. – HG Wells
- The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it. – Rick Bragg
- Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing? – Sunday Adelaja
- The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Home isn’t a place. It’s not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last. – Adam Bagdasarian