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

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'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 about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning how to dance in the rain. -- Unknown

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London

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

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse 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!

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

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)

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.

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)

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. 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 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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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.

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

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

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. Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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. 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 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 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 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 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.)

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

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

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.