Thursday Thirteen # 16

13 TONGUE-IN-CHEEK BABY QUOTES

"A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you’re pregnant, or you’d probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother—how reading goes out the window and thinking too." ~ Erica Jong

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" ~ Milton Berle

"I don't know why they say "you have a baby." The baby has you." ~ Gallagher

"Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage." ~ Marcelene Cox

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." ~ Franklin P. Jones

"A baby's an inestimable blessing and bother." ~ Mark Twain

"Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare." ~ Ed Asner

"People who say they sleep like babies usually don't have them." ~ Leo J. Burke

"The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing." ~ Kim Hubbard

"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it." ~ Marshall McLuhan

"A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be." ~ Anonymous

"First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet." ~ Prochnow

”If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.” ~ Anonymous