A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

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

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. - John Hancock

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 can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and  small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. - Pam Brown

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 is to know when to pretend that what's happening isn't happening.

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 narcissist is someone better looking than you are. - Gore Vidal

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. - Charles F. Kettering

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 snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! -Unknown

A trouble shared is a trouble halved. - Unknown

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

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person. - Dr. David M. Burns

Albert Einstein, Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -Unknown

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)

Although The Tongue ...Weights Very Little, But Very Few People Are Able To Hold It. - Unknown

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Unknown

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! - Sam Brookes

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Unknown

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

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

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 I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Unknown

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 life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan

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

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. -Unknown

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy. - Mike Ditka 

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 are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing.- Phyllis Diller

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

Colours are the smiles of nature. - Leigh Hunt

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. - From a headstone in Ireland

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.- Amelia Earhart

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. - Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. -Unknown

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin

Dogs are lousy poker players. When the get a good hand they wag their tails. U- nknown

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)

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Unknown

Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. - Gerard De Nerval

Every path hath a puddle. - George Herbert

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you chose to do with them is up to you. - Richard Bach

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. - Phyllis 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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. - John Wooden

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward
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. J- ames Baldwin

Forgiveness wasn’t based on the worthiness of the one who needed it, but on the grace of one who extended it. - Unknown

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

Friendship isn't about who you have known the longest. It's about those who came and never left your side. - Unknown

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 fulfill. - 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 

God will not look you over for medals, Degrees or diplomas, but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard

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 is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Unknown

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. - Unknown

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Unknown

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.  

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 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 friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. -Unknown

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. -John D. Rockefeller.

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 the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Unkown

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 don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

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 love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. - Leonardo da Vinci

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. - Liz 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. - Unknown

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. - Jennifer Unlimited

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault

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. - Unknown

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)

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code. - Unknown

I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! - Dr. Seuss

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. - Lucille Ball

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. - Lucille Ball

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz

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 have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. - Sir Isaac Newton

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -Unknown

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect yourself with slippers than to carpet the whole earth. - 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 the world offers up negativity and despair, surprise the world by giving back love and kindness. Send out the energy that you wish to experience, and you are certain to experience it. - 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. -Henry Ford

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. - Ernest Hemingway 

If we did all the things that 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 wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. - James A. Garfield

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 do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? - Basil S. Walsh

If you don't control your life, someone else will. - John Atkinson

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. - Edgar Watson Howe

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. - Dolly Parton

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

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 a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. - Orson Welles

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy. - Unknown

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan

If you've never run aground, you've never been anywhere! - Unknown

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 a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more of it I have. -Unknown

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 book of life, the answers aren't in the back. - Unknown

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 amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit. - Sandra Swinney

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 not who is right, but what is right, that is important.

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 wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. - Ernest Hemingway

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 hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned." - Frank Howard Clark

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)

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

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 the other person’s well being in mind,  when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Unknown

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

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

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

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

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. - Ralph Marston

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" - Fanny Brice

Let's not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up. -- Herschel Walker

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

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. Jack London

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Unknown

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralise you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

Little strokes fell great Oaks. - Benjamin Franklin 

Living in the past has its advantage - It's cheaper! - Unknown.

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. - Og Mandino

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 missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

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

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. - Daniel Hudson Burnham

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)

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. - Unknown

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

Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or handle. - James Russell Lowell

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. - Gerald 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 interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. - Charles F. Kettering
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

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

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. - Unknown

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly, And in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner Peace for anything what so ever, Even if your whole world seems upset. - St Francis de Sales

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. - Mae Jemison, astronaut

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 gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.- Thomas Jefferson 

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)

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. - W.E.B. Du Bois

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. - Phyllis 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. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

One father is more than a hundred School masters. - George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on. - Shirley Temple Black

One of the hardest decisions in life is when to start middle age. - From Words of Wisdom

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace; good people don't go into government.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of
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 a life lived for others is a life worth living. - Unknown

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. -Unknown

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.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind. - Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. - Elmer G. Letterman

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Frederick B. Wilcox

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Winnie the Pooh

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)

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Unknown

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr 

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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. 

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 tranquility. - 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.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. - Michael Jordan

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. - Billie Holiday 

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night’. - Unknown

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. - Joann Thomas

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralysing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. - Margaret Shepard

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin”.  - Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. - Unknown

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

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. - Mary Manin Morrissey

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. - Unknown

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. - Phillip Dormer Stanhope

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Tears are the silent language of grief. - Unknown

Temper merely shows lack of control and places you temporarily in the ranks of lunatics and fools. - William Nickerson

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 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 thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln

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 difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The dog that will follow everybody ain’t worth a curse. Josh Billings.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth. - Dan Rather

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 full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Definition of "happiness" - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

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 greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Unknown

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 important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein

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 makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward Phelps

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 sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. -- Jean Paul

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 past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. - Mick Jagger

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

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - Unknown

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 problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it. - Peter Drucker

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humour. - Margot Kaufman, American writer

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. - Ralph W. Sockman

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. - Edsgar Dijkstra

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. - Unknown

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. - Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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 people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen .- Jim Lovell

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

There is only one success -- to be able to live your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

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 free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. - Harvey MacKay

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. - Carl Sandburg

Times of trouble can be useful. They can show you who you really are, what kind of character you have developed. Troubled times help you grow stronger. Don't complain about your problems. The trouble you face today is training you to be strong in future difficulties. Remember, you are NOT alone unless you choose to be. - Unknown

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 be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. - Unknown

To get joy we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it. - John Templeton

To get the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. -Aldous Huxley 1894 English Novelist.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. - Unknown

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 Friendship is: When you smile -- I will know you are thinking of something that I would probably want to be involved in. - Uknown

True love can not be found where it does not truly exists. Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. -Unknown

Try not to become a man of success, But rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein

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. Chess master. -  Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. -Unknown

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson

We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. - Unknown

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 did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. - Unknown

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

Whatever you do, do it with kindness. Whatever you say, do it with kindness. Where ever you go, radiate kindness and remember to smile!

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. - Pericles

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 stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say: I used everything you gave me. - Erma Bombeck

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

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. - Unknown

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. - Honore de Balzac. 1799-1850 French Novelists.

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. - Patrick Overton

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 hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. - Unknown

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link
and get free. - Catherine Ponder

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 live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered. - Carlos Slim Helu  

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and do not repeat it. - Unknown

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 is happy will make others happy too. - Unknown

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 doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. - Abigail Van Buren

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.)  

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want. - Unknown

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mary Hemingway

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 cannot run away from weakness, you must sometime fight where you stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson

You can't base your life on other people's expectations. - Stevie Wonder

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 can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. - Michael Pritchard

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 make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. - Scott Sorrell

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 only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough. - Joe Lewis

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.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. - Zig Ziglar

You learn something every day if you pay attention. - Ray LeBlond