If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. ~Elizabeth Drew
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it? ~John Dos Passos, 1917
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want." ~Voltaire
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. ~Frederick W. Robertson Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~Author Unknown
Gone golfin'... be back dark thirty. ~Author Unknown
If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault. ~Phil Drabble
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern
My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex. ~Alicia Silverstone
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather, 1913
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ~Henry David Thoreau
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. ~Benjamin Franklin
One does what one is; one becomes what one does. ~Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa
Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. ~Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844
And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. ~Bill Knott, "(End) of Summer (1966)" (Thanks, Laurie)
Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ~Martin H. Fischer
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown
Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. ~Richard Lewis
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. ~Edmund Arthur Helps
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. ~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
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