76 Quotes About Relatives

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

An aphorism is the insight of a moment, not a lifetime.

My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.I know this is troubling.I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns.Chimps. There's no excuse for them.

The one who lives with neighbors and relatives will learn to live with the gain of pains and the pain of gains

Sometimes, the one you love isn't the one for you and this doesn't apply only in relationships, but also among relatives.

Do not refuse to help your own relatives, if you so wish for them be a protective wall surrounding you.

How tired Dabney is, of "genteel" conversation; of his mother, whose love for him is stifling as damp cotton batting, and her tedious relatives of whom not one is younger than she, and no one is near the age of her restless son.

Well, she is my most beloved and adored kinswoman, and for her sake I would commit most crimes.

Be wary to enter a house whose door is opened by a relative.