Relatives Quotes

By Nabil Medawar | Published: March 18, 2009
  • A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals. ~ Author Unknown
  • A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ~ George Ade
  • A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. ~ P. J. O’Rourke
  • All people are your relatives; therefore expect only trouble from them. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. ~ Hebrew Proverb
  • Better one true friend than a hundred relatives. ~ Italian Proverb
  • Distant relatives are the best kind, and the further the better. ~ Kin Hubbard
  • Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. ~ Greek Proverb
  • Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing. ~ Spanish Proverb
  • Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~ Franklin P. Jones
  • If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business. ~ Alexander Pope
  • If relatives help each other, what harm can be done to them? ~ Ethiopian Proverb
  • Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
  • Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him. ~ Danish Proverb
  • The day your horse dies and your money’s gone, your relatives change into strangers. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • The rich never have to seek out their relatives. ~ Italian Proverb
  • To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. ~ Honore De Belzac
  • When you are poor, neighbors close by will not come; once you become rich, you’ll be surprised by visits from  relatives afar. ~ Chinese Proverbs
  • Whoever gossips about his relatives has no luck and no blessing. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written. ~ Maltese Proverb

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