This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.