A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Sigmund Freud · In Ernest Jones, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1953), vol. I, ch. 1

To love and to work.

Sigmund Freud · The source reads: “[Regarding what a normal person should be able to do:] To love and to work.” · In Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society (1963), on what a normal person should be able to do

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Attributed to Sigmund Freud · Attributed

Where are you riding to? Don't ask me, ask the horse.

Sigmund Freud · The source reads: “'Itzig, wohin reit'st Du?' 'Weiss ich, frag das Pferd.' 'Itzig, where are you riding to?' 'Don't ask me, ask the horse.'”

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Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

Robert Frost · Paris Review interview (1960)

The family—that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana."

Betty White · The actress on age.

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“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

“To love and to work.”

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

“Where are you riding to? Don't ask me, ask the horse.”

“Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.”

“The family—that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”

“My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana."”