Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.
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