Quotes & Proverbs
William Wordsworth: "That best portion of a good man's life, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
Benjamin Franklin: "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
Sai Baba: "Life is a song...sing it. Life is a game...play it. Life is a challenge...meet it. Life is a dream...realize it. Life is a sacrifice...offer it. Life is love...enjoy it."
Indian Proverb: "Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength."
Kathleen S. Abrams: "In the city, a road with no exit is marked "Dead End". In the country, we call these roads "lanes". I always think that it is sad to label anything a dead end. No one wants to explore it then."
Leo Buscaglia: "Life is an uncharted territory. It reveals its' story one moment at a time."
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Malcolm S. Forbes: "Let your children go if you want to keep them."
Dave Barry: "Calories are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that we would have a way to get onion dip into our mouths at parties, has none."
Isobel L. Livingston: "Ever notice....that the shortest line becomes the slowest line once you choose it??"
Bill Copeland: "Ever notice....that immediately after you buy an item, you find a coupon for it??"
Sid Archer: "Teach your children the value of a dollar, give them a dime."
Arnold M. Glasow: "Nothing lasts forever, not even your troubles."
Paul G. Hewitt: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you push hard on the world, the world pushes back on you. If you touch the world gently, the world will touch you gently in return."
Unknown: "There are two things people worry about these days....one is that things may never get back to normal and the other, that they have already!!"
Ron Dentinger: "There are two..."kinds of secrets"...those that are not worth keeping and those that are to good to keep."
Arnold M. Glasow: "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it."
Sandra Day O'Connor: "Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."
Ronald C. Osborn: "Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Albert Einstein: "Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted."
John Haldane: "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger then we can suppose."
Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the the former."
Ernest Hemingway: "Never mistake motion for action."
Winston Churchill: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
George Bernard Shaw: "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
George Bernard Shaw: "As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
Bugs Bunny: "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Oscar Wilde: " A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at."
Albert Einstein: "if A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z. With X being work, Y play and Z keeping your mouth shut."
William Congrev: "Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
Will Rogers: "If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
Bill Gates, in 1981: "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Josh Billings: "The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."
Charles Schultz, Creator of "Peanuts": "I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.: "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit in the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series: "The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."
Scottish Proverb: "Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper."
Chekhov: "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."
David Bissonette: "I recently rad that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste."
Sacha Guitry: "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
Jackie Mason: "Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."
Socrates: "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man."
Lana Turner: "A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who find such a man."
Dixie Carter: "We shouldn't want to look like anybody but ourselves, because we are the people we were intended to be."
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"Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence."
"Marriage is when a man and woman become as one: the trouble starts when they try to decide which one."
"If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep."
"All it takes to triumph over adversity is the conviction that you can."
"Happiness should be your life's work, not a vacation that you postpone until you have more time."
"When a determined woman encounters stumbling blocks, she uses them as stepping stones."
"Even the smallest change can require a big commitment."
"Admitting a mistake is just the first small step. Learning from it requires a great leap."
"Grandmothers, mothers, aunts and other older women each show a girl a glimpse of her possible future. Those who care will make sure it's a hopeful view."
"A woman's work is never done, you just have to know when to quit."
"You know you need a vacation when the first thing on your to do list is finding yesterday's to do list."
"Take time every day to look around you. You'll never see the world from exactly this perspective again."
"Approach dreams as if it were impossible to fail and discover that the journey to reality is only beginning."
"No one can make you feel anything----You have to cooperate."
"Love often depends more on what you do than what you feel."
"Poised at the brink of new beginnings, I've discovered that I find a ladder or learn to fly."
"Seize time with growing children and aging loved ones, as much for your sake as theirs."
"If we can face the past with acceptance, the present with confidence and the future with expectancy, then we have the faith it takes for life's journey.
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