A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. Carl Sandburg
A clever man commits no minor blunders. Goethe (1749-1832)
A day without laughter is a day wasted. Charlie Chaplin
A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and
who therefore is always available to love and be loved. Aaron
Katcher, American Educator and Psychiatrist
A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he
loves himself. Josh Billings
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. Author Unknown
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she
is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold
A father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may
become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives and wives
their husbands But a
mother's love endures through
all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's
condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her
child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers
the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry
laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his
youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.
Washington Irving
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded
on friendship. John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
A good dog never dies he always stays he walks besides you on crisp
autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near,
his head is within our hand in his old way. Mary Carolyn Davies
A Good Friend Is Like A Good Bra. Hard to Find, Supportive,
Comfortable, And Always Close To Your Heart! Unknown
A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog’s tail off. The vet asked why.
Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to
eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists. CT
Jones.
A male gynaecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car.
Carrie Snow
A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to
get mad himself. George D. Prentice 1802-1870 American Journalist &
Humorist.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like
his father. Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he
can't. Rhonda Hansome
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Paul
Erdos
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore De Balzac
A naked dog for a naked lady. Gypsy Rose Lee
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. Gore Vidal
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from
brooding over being a dog. Edward Noyes Westcott 1846-1898 American
Banger & Novelist.
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love
can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To
feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather
die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and
care for the one you chose. Rob Cella
A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire (1694-1778)
About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog.
Edgar Watson Houe 1853-1937 American Journalist.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind
blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. François de La
Rouchefoucauld
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue. Scott Adams.
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to
choose a relative. Mordecai Siegal, Contemporary Writer
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome
the empty nest. Karen Savage and Patricia Adams the Good Stepmother
Albert Einstein, Everything that is really great and inspiring is
created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every
contract to make the terms of it fair. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life
as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness,
not by reception Harold Loukes
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and
any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it
requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde
Are we not like two volumes of one book? Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Richard
Bach
As powerful as the blade, and as gentle as the mist, the beginning
and end of all that is. Ghost
Assassins! Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
while working. Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way
down. Jimmy Durante
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life, the evening beam that
smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Lord
Byron
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. Maryon Pearson
Being patted is what it is all about. Roger Caras.
Black holes are where God divided by zero. Steven Wright
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him
father! Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Both humans and dogs love to play well in adulthood, and individuals
from both species occasionally display evidence of having a
conscience. John Winokur, American Writer
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
Unknown
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on.
But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him
into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to
the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. Clarence
Budington Kelland
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if
you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to
go anywhere. Billy Crystal
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder,
but when you do, it blows away your whole leg Bjarne Stroustrup
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as
Wall Street and the railroads. Harry S. Truman
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today.
They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with
tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever
they were meant to be. The unknown person inside each of them is our
hope for the future. Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the
world is done by children. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Clan loyalty means that if you antagonise one member of the clan,
you antagonise the whole lot. Paul Klebnikov
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow
their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while
cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no
one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at
you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the
window! Steve Bluestone
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
Dogs are lousy poker players. When the get a good hand they wag
their tails.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or
discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon
is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring -- it was
peace. Milan Kundera
Don't be so humble - you are not that great. Golda Meir (1898-1978)
to a visiting diplomat
Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll
treat you like dogs. Martha Scott
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will
avoid you. Winston Churchill
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. James
Dean
Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won’t use it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to
solve other problems. Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la
Methode"
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will
Durant
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.- Ambrose
Bierce (1842-1914)
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. Gerard De Nerval
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the
windows. Jennifer Unlimited
Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls. Phillis Diller
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to
have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject
and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his
original ideas closer together. Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is
soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby
Fifth Avenue is too expensive for anyone but dogs. Mel Finkelstein,
Daily News
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and
happy life
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
David Myers Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we
come. Albert Camus:
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Abraham Lincoln:
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. Epictetus
Freedom is the right to live as we wish. Arthur Schopenhauer:
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine
(354-430)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821)
Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfil. -
Zig Ziglar
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even
though I think it is hopeless.- Chester W. Nimitz
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while
bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Grief makes one hour ten.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time
we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of
happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true. Leon J. Suenes
Having a little inflation is like being a little bit pregnant. Leon
Henderson
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland
He ended the job as he began it; fired with enthusiasm. Don
O'Shaughnessy.
He that lieth down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas. Ben Franklin
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. Gaston Bachelard
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. Dwight D.
Eisenhower:
Heaven goes by favour; if it went by merit, you would stay out and
your dog would go in. Mark Twain.
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes
death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honour or gratitude
for getting him into that predicament.
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes
death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude
for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his
father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble,
takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son
how best to crash through it. Clarence
Budington Kelland
Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity. Napoleon
Bonaparte
His ignorance is encyclopaedic Abba Eban (1915-)
His name is not wild dog anymore, but the first friend, because he
will be our friend for always and always and always. --Rudyard
Kipling
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of
friends. Alexander Pope 1688-1744 English Poet.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the
timid. Antoine De Saint-Exupery:
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. Alfred Bernhard
Nobel (1833-1896)
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there
is no appeal. Arthur C.
Clarke
I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his
house. Zsa Zsa Gabor-
I am not opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to
offer me the position. Mark Twain
I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
Shakespeare.
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my
perfect right. Frederick (II) the Great
I bought my grandmother a Seeing Eye dog. But he's a little
sadistic. He does impressions of cars screeching to a halt. Larry
Amoros
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can
write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling
(1904-1963)
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a
father's protection. Sigmund Freud
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called
an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are
sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. Clarence Darrow, Scopes
trial, 1925.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
use. Galileo Galileo
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time
for my nap. Bob Hope
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in
order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826)
I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not
pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed,
but fine against a wall." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have a great dog. She's half Lab, half pit bull. A good
combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it
back to me. Jimi Celeste
I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. Zsa Zsa
Gabor (me too!)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Xenocrates
(396-314 B.C.)
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage
and a career. Gloria Steinem
I intend to live forever -- so far, so good. Stephen Wright (born on
Dec. 6, 1955)
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
I know that dogs are pack animals, but it is difficult to imagine a
pack of standard poodles...and if there was such a thing as a pack
of standard poodles, where would they rove to? Bloomingdale's?
Yvonne Clifford, American actress
I like driving around with my two dogs, especially on the freeways.
I make them wear little hats so I can use the car-pool lanes. Monica
Piper
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed
by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope
with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. Miriam Makeba
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in
it. W.C Fields
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home
who answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls
every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that
comes home late every night. Marie Corelli
I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray
eyebrows. Janette Barber-
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. Ian L. Fleming
(1908-1964)
I think - therefore I'm single. Lizz Winstead
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) when asked what his favourite song is
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack
me at once. Jennifer Unlimited
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. Groucho
Marx
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen
and sixteen hours a day. I
If the new American father feels bewildered and even
defeated, let him take comfort
from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a
fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby
I went to an exclusive kennel club. It was very exclusive. There was
a sign out front: "No Dogs Allowed." Phil Foster
I would have made a good Pope. Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
If a man does his best, what else is there? General George S. Patton
(1885-1945)
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their
products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to
advertise them. Will Rogers.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we’d find it just as hard to get along
with them as we do people. Karel Capek 1890-1938 Czech Journalist.
If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
Sue Grafton
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How
intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your
neck? Linda Ellerbee
If raising children was going to be easy, it never would have
started with something called labour! Unknown
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
If we all did things we are capable of doing, we would literally
astound ourselves. Thomas Edison
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a
horrible warning. Catherine
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a
horrible warning. Catherine Aird
If you don't control your life, someone else will. John Atkinson
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if
you don't, you have achieved half your failure. David Ambrose
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus
one day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
If you poison the environment, the environment will poison you. Tony
Follari Comedian and Artist here in New Zealand
If you think your boss is stupid remember; you wouldn't have a job
if he was smarter. Albert Grant.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create
the universe. Carl Sagan
I'll moider da bum Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what
he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll sleep when I'm dead. Warren Zevon
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be
living apart. E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
Roseanne Barr
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not
dumb and I'm also not blonde. Dolly Parton
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want
anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be
understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But
in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two
minus one equals nothing. - Ninon De L'Enclos (1616-1706)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
In the late summer afternoon, when the teacups were cleared, and the
family went inside... the dogs who are no longer under human
command, find delight in the company of each other. Joe Dunnea,
Irish Writer
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But,
in practice, there is. Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the
hell happened? Cora Harvey Armstrong
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he
was. Anne Sexton
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded
our humanity. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
Margaret Kennedy
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane
and have one's doubts. G. B. Burgin
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and
sons. Johann Schiller
It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the
memory of the commercial classes. Oscar Wilde
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and
persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity
and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
created for years or even generations. Kahlil Gibran
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you
quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for
father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly
enjoyed knowing them all. Alice Walker
It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a
big sign and it said, Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog. The
all-night drugstore closed at noon. Jackie Vernon
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that
engendered religion. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and
violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire
to beget children is a natural urge. Phyllis Diller
It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney (1901-1966)
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. Annie
Gottlier
I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog. Wendy
Liebman
I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. Groucho Marx
(1895-1977)
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual
experience the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from
others, by study the activities of men who have made notable marks,
by striving to analyse the everyday play of causes and effects, by
constant study of human nature B. C. Forbes
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you. Francois
Rabelais 1495-1583 French Humorist.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel but
not in the kitchen. George Bernard Shaw 1856 British Dramatist.
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever
seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to
withdraw that statement. Mark Twain
Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. Laurie Kuslansky
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blending
and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as
taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our
blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life. John Muir
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery
never changes. Lewis Grizzard
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov
Little strokes fell great Oaks. Benjamin Franklin
Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm
of you partner’s hand, knowing they will be handled with care. Carl
S. Avery
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every
hand. Mother Teresa
Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we
unconsciously overlook many thoughts. --Beatrice Saunders
Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.
Kimberly Kirberg
Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail
to see. Anonymous
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do. David
Wilkerson
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of
the species. W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh
Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey - former owner of the
Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide
forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide
forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
Man is a dog’s ideal of what God should be. Holbrook Jackson 1874
English Journalist.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--no
dog exchanges bones with another. Adam Smith 1723-1790 Scottish
Politician and Economist.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on
the street. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty but everything else starts
to wear out, fall out, or spread out. Phyllis Diller
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is
the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes
from love is miracle. Marianne Williamson
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant
form of misery. Spike Milligan
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his
tail. Josh Billings
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Mother always said that honesty was the best policy, and money isn't
everything. She was wrong about other things too.
Gerald Barzan
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little
children. William M.
Thackeray
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have
two or three kids and a dog. Carl Rowan
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be
happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night But ah, my
foes and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light! Edna St. Vincent
Millay
My dog can bark like a Congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a
press secretary, and play dead like a receptionist when the phone
rings. Gerold Solomon, US Congressman
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother
would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not
raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys. Harmon
Killebrew
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton.
My neighbour has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!"
The other replies "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you
say, "Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign
language." Morey Amsterdam
My second favorite household chore is ironing.
My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I
faint. Erma Bombeck
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her
curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral
weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our
eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its
plain. Henry David Thoreau Naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon
Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating
you. Jill Bennett An
author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother
who talks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected. Red Buttons
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's
consent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor
Roosevelt
None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a
Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so
faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be
discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I
am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some
points, and you will have acquired a great deal. Victoria, Queen of
England
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Astor together could have raised money
enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog. Ernest Thompson
Seton, American writer and naturalist.
Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that
counts can be counted. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovelier than
love itself. Devan Penegar
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited
love. Charlie Brown in "Peanuts", Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal. Henry Ford (1863-1947)
October: This is one of the particularly dangerous months to invest
in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September,
April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German shepherd that bites its nails?
Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is
piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks. Phillis
Diller
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a
person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but
pouring them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together,
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is
worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik
Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and
give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up
tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug. Winston
Churchill, on his daughter Mary's pet pug.
Old age ain't no place for sissies. Bette Davis
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. Gloria Naylor
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how
improbable, must be the truth. Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, 1859-1930)
One father is more than a hundred School masters. George Herbert,
Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
One father is more than a hundred School masters. George Herbert.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is
love. Sophocles
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food
groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. Alex Levine
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is
innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the
river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same
everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will
not be sorrowful, if he is not. Henry David Thoreau, upon the death
of his brother.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Our understandings are always liable to error Nature and certainty
are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and
pretence Marcus Antoninus
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it
is very dark. Groucho Marx.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of
thought which they avoid. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupery
Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. Corey Ford,
American writer
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the
latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870)
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every
dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. Austin
O’Malley 1858-1932 American Oculist.
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge
She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except
the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human
they have both come to the right place. Lloyd Alexander, American
writer.
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of
tricks. Queen Victoria.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their
fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging
father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had
a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty
and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his
child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a
Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic
possibilities of life. Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Simply having children does not make mothers. Over my slumbers your
loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.
Elizabeth Chase
Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He
respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire
them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar.
His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and
suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquillity.
John Steinbeck
Smile at each other; smile at your wife, smile at your husband,
smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who
it is- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each
other. Mother Teresa
So many ways to say, "I love you", never enough to say how much.
Cameron Rand
Some dogs live for praise they look at you as if to say "Don't throw
balls... just throw bouquets."Jhordis Anderson, American Painter
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have
survived, But what torments of grief you endured, From evil that
never arrived. R W Emerson.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralysing suspicion that
he is trying to be funny. Guy Davenport
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself "Lillian, you
should have remained a virgin”. Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy
Carter)
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.
Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's
mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and
pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call
the game and start all over again. Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a
baby, 1968
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.
Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's
mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and
pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call
the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper
a baby, 1968
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for
it. David Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is
forced to multiply its strength.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. Edward George
Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
Tears are the silent language of grief
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the
provider for all, and the enemy of all. J. August Strindberg
The Airdale... an unrivalled mixture of brains, and clownish wit,
the very ingredients one looks for in a spouse. Chip Brown,
Connoisseur Magazine
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work. Emile Zola (1840-1902)
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light
in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of
right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's
plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily
bread are the sweetest things in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. Elbert Hubbard
The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an
eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was
'committed'. unknown
The dog that will follow everybody ain’t worth a curse. Josh
Billings.
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Definition of
"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
The goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to
control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Abraham
Heschel
The great pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with
him and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of
himself too. Samuel Butler
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved-
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor
Hugo
The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
W. R. Wallace
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. Helen
Hayes (at 73)
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is
truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this
fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by
loading honours on your head. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
Disraeli
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for
that kind of business than any other. Josh Billings.
The method of nature: who could ever analyse it? Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more I see of men the more I like dogs. Madame de Stael
1766-1817 French social leader.
The more I see of the depressing stature of people, the more I
admire my dogs. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790-1869 French Poet.
The more we are separated from nature, the unhappier we get. Unknown
The more we exploit nature, the more our options are reduced, until
we have only one: to fight for survival. Morris K. Udall
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world--the very nature of its life. R