PA: Ma, there no need to apology for our kids, all fifteen are chips off the old block.
MA: Any more chips and there won't be anymore block.

Pa ain't much for working and the rest the youngen's seem to take after him."

Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention."

PA: Ought'a put up a towel rack ma . . . .
MA: No one is stopping you, that I know of . . ..

I can't make Pa change and be neat, so I'll have to change and be dirty. Been peace in this house ever since."