"Alle lykkelige familier ligner hverandre."

Translation: All happy families resemble one another.

[PookaGar]

...men hver ulykkelige familie er ulykkelige på sin egen måte?

[daguipa]

Anna Karenina?

[dagummace]

So one happy family resembles another, or members of happy damilies look like their relatives?

[Deliciae]

I would assume the former, but in theory it could mean the latter as well.

This is (half) a quote from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which PookaGar completed above:

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

[AEuropeanSpectre]

Do you not need "på" after "å ligne"? Both translations are accepted, but I had always thought "å ligne" had to be "å ligne på"

[BradHammer]

I think you only need the på if the next word is meg, deg, deres, etc maybr

[rucky4]

Emily Prentis from Criminal minds said something like this

[TheSnowKing]

It's half the opening sentence of Anna Karenina