There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Source: The Tunnel of Love, ch. 5 (1954).
-- Peter De Vries, (Feb 27 1910-1993), US novelist, editor; He was well known as a satirist, linguist, and critically acclaimed for his comic novels The Tunnel of Love, 1954, & Comfort Me with Apples, 1956.