
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. 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. Unknown
A large part of good manners
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 & Humourist.
A man can't make a
place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the
family tree. -- Helen Keller
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 forgive your
enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde
Always laugh when you
can. It is cheap medicine. Unknown
Always tell the
truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it
gives you such an advantage over the man who is trying to remember
his lies!
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
Animals are such
agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Elliot
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
Ask not for victory,
ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honour to us all,
even more you bring honour to yourself. - -- From the Decathlete
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 hard on yourself
and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay
one on the back of another ~ A.W. Tozer
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
Be who you are and
say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who
matter don't mind. ---Dr. Seuss
Behind every successful
man is a surprised woman. Maryon Pearson
Being happy doesn't
mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to
look beyond the imperfections.
Unknown
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. Unknown
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
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
Children need models
rather than critics.- -- Joseph Joubert
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 all the good you
can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
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. Unknown
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 discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats
Don't be so humble - you are not that great. Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost
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
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 path hath a puddle. - George Herbert
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)
Experience is a hard
teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
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 beautiful eyes,
look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of
kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never
alone. Audrey Hepburn
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. Unknown
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
Hard things are put
in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and
strength.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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 honour 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 attribute my
success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. -- Florence
Nightingale
I begin by taking. I
shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. Frederick
(II) the Great
I believe that
thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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. Unknown
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
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? Unknown
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 there is any one
secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's
point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as
from your own.
Unknown
If there is any one
secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's
point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as
from your own.
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 we wait for the
moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall
never begin. - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright
If you are given a
chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because
you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's
what I want to do. That's what it's all about. -- Tiger Woods
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 feel
rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy.
If you want to make an
apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl
Sagan
what it's all
about. -- Tiger Woods
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 one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. -- Dolley Madison
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 takes twenty
years to become an overnight success. - Eddie Cantor
It takes two to make
Peace. JFK
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 not what you do
once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the
difference. -- Jenny Craig
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
Humourist.
Keep your fears to
yourself, but share your courage with others.
Unknown
Know the true value
of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No
idleness...never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord
Chesterfield
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 not a 'brief
candle.' It is a splendid torch that must be made to burn as
brightly as possible before it is handed on to the next generation.
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish critic and playwright.
Life is not a matter
of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Life is pleasant. Death
is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov
Little strokes fell great Oaks. Benjamin Franklin
Living in the past
has its advantage - It's cheaper!
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
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)
for
one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without
the things we cannot or should not have.
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 favourite
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
Never spend your
money before you have earned it. -- Thomas Jefferson
No man is good enough to
govern another man without that other's consent. Unknown
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 of the hardest
decisions in life is when to start middle age. ~ From Words of
Wisdom
One of the nice
things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist
except in our imaginations.
them do not exist except in our
imaginations.-- Steve Allen
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 are always
blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they
can't find them, make them. - -- George Bernard Shaw
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
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Winnie the Poo
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
Remember, if you
ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get
older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help
yourself, the second is to help others. Audrey Hepburn
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
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you will land among the stars. ~ Les Brown
Should you find
yourself at a loss, wondering what life is all about and what your
purpose is, being thankful. There are those who didn't live long
enough to get the opportunity to wonder.
Unknown
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
Strength is born in
the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy ~ Felicia
Hemans
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. Unknown
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. Chinese Proverb
That is the thankless
position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the
enemy of all. J. August Strindberg
The aim of an
argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. - --
Joseph Joubert
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 antique is
an old friend.
Unknown
The best place to
find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. - Swedish proverb
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
predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay
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 fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The future belongs to
those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs
to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X, American spokesman
for the Nation of Islam
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 grand essentials
to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and
something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
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 man who wants to
lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - James Crook
The measure of a
man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never
be found out. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
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. Rachel Carson
1962
The mother's heart is
the child's schoolroom.
H. W. Beecher
The nicest thing for me
is sleep, then at least I can dream Marilyn Monroe
The only love worthy of
a name is unconditional. John Powell
The only way of
finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to get rid
of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The opposite of a
correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound
truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
The optimist proclaims
that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist
fears this is true. James Branch Cabell
The phrase "working
mother" is redundant. Jane Sellman
The poor dog, in life
the firmest friend, "The first to welcome, foremost to defend. Lord
Byron, an epitaph for his dog Boatswain.
The prerequisite for
making love is to like someone enormously Helen Gurley Brown
The pug is living proof
that God has a sense of humour. Margot Kaufman, American writer
The rich man’s guardian
and the poor man’s friend, the only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe.
The Saluki... is a
marvel of elegance. Vita Sackville-West
The secret of a good
sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have
the two as close together as possible. George Burns
The secret of happiness
is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides
The secret of success is
to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
The successful man will
profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale
Carnegie
The supernatural is the
natural not yet understood. Elbert Hubbard
The test of courage
comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when
we are in the majority.
The use of COBOL
cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a
criminal offence. Edsgar Dijkstra
There are no classes
in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with
what is most difficult.
There are only two
options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT.
There's no such thing as life in-between. - Pat Riley, basketball
coach
things happen.-- Jim Lovell
There are people in the
world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form
of bread. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
There are three faithful
friends--an old wife, an old dog and ready money. Ben Franklin.
There is a wonderful law
of nature that the three things we crave most happiness, freedom,
and peace of mind- are always attained by giving them to someone
else. Anonymous
There is more stupidity
than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank
Zappa
There is no grief which
time does not lessen and soften. Unknown
There is no sound;
there is no word that can be heard unless someone listens. Ed
Therefore, to be unhappy
one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness.
I hope you're getting this down. Woody Allen
There's one sad truth in
life I've found while journeying east and west - The only folks we
really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we
scarcely know; we please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a
thoughtless blow to those who love us best. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There's something like a
line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to
his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough
for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels
like love itself. John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined
Cemetery, 1994
They are better than
human beings, because they know but do not tell. Emily Dickinson
They have dog food for
constipated dogs. If your dog is constipated, why screw up a good
thing? Stay indoors and let 'em bloat! David Letterman
They never talk about
themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep
up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. Jerome K.
Jerome, English humourist
They say the dog is
man's best friend. I don't believe that. How many of your friends
have you neutered? Larry Reeb
They usually have two
tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have
one. Rita Rudner
Things are going to get
a lot worse before they get worse. Lily Tomlin
Thirty-five is when you
finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
Caryn Leschen
This book fills a
much-needed gap. Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
Those who love deeply
never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Sir
Arthur Wing Pine
Those who make the
worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
- Jean de la Bruyere, 17th century French essayist
Through humour, you
can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you
find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you
can survive it. -- Bill Cosby
Thus nature has no love
for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on so support; and the
sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship Marcus
Tullius Cicero
Time is the coin of
your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine
how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it
for you.
To be a successful
father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't
look at it for the first two years. Ernest Hemingway
To his dog, every man is
Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley 1894
English Novelist.
To love at all is to be
vulnerable. C.S. Lewis
To love is to suffer. To
avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not
loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To
suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to
suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy.
To love oneself is the
beginning of a lifelong romance Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
To me, old age is always
fifteen years older than I am. Bernard Baruch
To talk well and
eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to
know the right moment to stop. Mozart
Too bad all the
people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or
cutting hair. ~ George Burns
Too many folks go
through life running from something that isn't after them.
Unknown
Too many people miss
the silver lining because they're expecting gold. - Maurice Setter
Treat people as if
they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what
they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
True love can not be
found where it does not truly exists. Nor can it be hidden where it
truly does. Unknown
Until I was thirteen, I
thought my name was SHUT UP Joe Namath
Vacation is what you
take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. - Lion
from Wizard of Oz
Victory goes to the
player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Chessmaster Savielly
Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
We all agree that your
theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
We can draw lessons
from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We can't become what
we need by remaining what we are. - Max Dupree
We come to love not
by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect
person perfectly. -- Sam Keen
We could certainly slow
the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
Will Rogers
We didn't lose the game;
we just ran out of time. Vince Lombardi
We grow too soon old and too late smart. Arthur Godfrey
We stand today at a
crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The
other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to
make the right choice. ~ Woody Allen
We worry about what a
child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher
Weeds are flowers too,
once you get to know them. A. A. Milne Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
We're so busy
watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to
enjoy where we are. -- From Calvin & Hobbes
What are Raphael's
Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in a permanent
outline forever?
T. W.
Higginson
What kind of life a
dog... acquires, I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or
lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then
becomes strangely incomplete: one sees little but legs. E.V. Lucas,
English writer
What lies behind us
and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us. -- William Morrow
What the mother sings
the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. Henry Ward Beecher
What you leave
behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven
into the lives of others.
Whatever women must do
they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton
Whatever you are, be a
good one. Unknown
When a man’s dog turns
against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to
mama. Mark Twain.
When I am working on a
problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve
the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
When I was a boy of
fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the
old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at
how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain, "Old Times on
the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
When I was young, I was
put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized
I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow! Kathy
Buckley
-- Erma Bombeck
When Nature has work to
be done, she creates a genius to do it Ralph Waldo Emerson
When there is an old
maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. Honore de Balzac.
1799-1850 French Novelists.
When women are depressed
they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. Elayne
Boosler
When you have to kill a
man, it costs nothing to be polite. Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
When you leave them in
the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there
like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later. Erma
Bombeck
When you take charge
of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other
people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give
someone veto power over your life.
Unknown
Whenever I climb I am
followed by a dog called 'Ego'. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Whenever I hear anyone
arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him
personally. Unknown
Where grief is fresh,
any attempt to divert it only irritates. Unknown
Where there is great
love, there are always miracles. --Willa Cather (1876-1947)
Whether you think that
you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
While we are postponing,
life speeds by. Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
Whoever thought up the
word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put
my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. Jan King
Why does a man take it
for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her,
when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
Helen Rowland
Why is it that my heart
is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why
do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures
coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even
finding its master?-Emil Zola
Wisdom has two
parts: 1)- Having a lot to say. 2) - Not saying it. - Church
billboard in Vermont
Wise men make proverbs,
but fools repeat them. Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
Wit is educated
insolence. Aristotle (284-322 B.C.)
Worry is the
darkroom in which negatives are developed.
Unknown
Worrying is like a
rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you
anywhere.
Unknown
Wouldn't it be nice if
whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctr Alt
Delete' and start all over? Unknown
You can't do anything
about the length of your life, but you can do something about its
width and depth. ~H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic
(1880-1956)
You can't just let
nature run wild.
Wally
Hickel former governor of Alaska
You have not lived
today until you have done something for someone who can never repay
you." - John Bunyon
You have to do your own
growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. Unknown
You know the hardest
thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking
your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears. Geri Jewell
You may be disappointed
if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills
You never realise a dog
is a man’s best friend until you start betting on horses. Unknown
You see a lot of smart
guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a
dumb guy. Erica Jong
You see things; and you
say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never where; and I say, 'Why
not? George Bernard Shaw
You were born an
original. Don't die a copy. -- John Mason