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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. (Alexander Lloyd)
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. (Alexander Lloyd)
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. (Alexander Lloyd)
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. (Alexander Lloyd)
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. (Alexander Lloyd)
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. (Alexander Lloyd)
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices. (Alexander Lloyd)
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. (Alexander Lloyd)
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government. (Alexander Lloyd)
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us. (Alexander Lloyd)
Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. (Alexander Lloyd)
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. (Alexander Lloyd)
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. (Alexander Lloyd)
The hatred of relatives is the most violent. (Alexander Lloyd)
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. (Alexander Lloyd)
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Alexander Lloyd)
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. (Alexander Lloyd)
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law. (Alexander Lloyd)
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. (Alexander Lloyd)
A lot of it is the friendships made over the years, ... We've become friends. We've become a family. (Alexander Lloyd)
But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me. (Alexander Lloyd)
Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents. (Alexander Lloyd)
My family is my first priority but I don't think that means I should have to give up work. I am lucky that David is very supportive (Alexander Lloyd)
On hearing that Tamzin Outhwaite wouldn't mind a night with husband David: 'Firstly, Tamzin who, secondly, I think it's disrespectful, and thirdly, as if, love (Alexander Lloyd)
My dad likes my success, ... He enjoys it for a lot of reasons. Yes, he's proud of me and so is my mom, but I think that ... he likes it that I stir it up, because he has questioned a lot of the things that he preached about for so many years. (Alexander Lloyd)
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