My Fave Quotes

Happiness is...

2011-10-23T10:09:00.000-07:00

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Author Unknown

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it..."
Jacques Prévert

If you want to be happy, be
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

ust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Life is...

2010-02-26T06:58:00.000-08:00

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor

The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. ~The Quote Garden

Life is simple, its just not easy. ~Author Unknown

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne

A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey

Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~José Ortega y Gasset

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein

Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings." ~From the movie Mansfield Park

Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. ~Stacy

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. ~Confucius

If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton

Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~Henry Miller

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. ~Robert Brault

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you. ~Anonymous

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. ~Diego Marchi

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown

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

Sad Love

2010-02-20T07:18:00.000-08:00

How can you tell the sun not to shine, when clouds exist. How can you ask leaves not to fall when wind exists. How can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist. ~ Unknown

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ~ Jean Zheng

I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing. ~ Nancy Williams

I do not want to make reasons for you to stay, only reasons for you to return. ~ Jonivan

We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn't give us the license to own a person. This is what love means...sacrifice. ~ Unknown

One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ~ Khalil Gibran

I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown

I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~ Unknown

I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can't give you my soul and my heart because you'll just break it apart. ~ Unknown

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are just like a Rose, a lesson of beauty, to whom a memory, but forever remembered ~ A. Neilen

I don't regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do because what ever I've done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you. ~ Unknown

I desire nothing more than to be in your heart until forever dies. ~ Unknown

Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. ~ Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde

We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. ~ Gloria Gaither

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. ~ Marlin Finch Lupus

Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. ~ Jean Zheng

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ~ Alan Watts

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~ Unknown

If you truely love something, let it go, it'll come back if and when the time is right. ~ Katie Schrimsher

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde

If The Only Possible Way We Can Be Together Is In My Dreams...Then I'll Sleep Forever. ~ Unknown

- @dh3 -

Love..

2010-02-20T07:04:00.000-08:00

I don't wish to be everything to everyone rather i would like to be something to someone. ~ Unknown

I don't need to be wanted, I want to be needed. ~ Unknown

Where there is no love put love, and you will find love. ~ A. Sachs

When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown

Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. ~ Emily Bronte

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~ Unknown

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Fredrich Halm

True love stories never have endings. ~ Unknown

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain

To be in Love is the best way to see the life at it's best! ~ Unknown

To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ~ Petrarch

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. ~ Aldous Huxley

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~ Unknown

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ Oprah Winfrey

There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~ Unknown

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton

The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly. ~ Unknown

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin

The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. ~ Lyndsey Albrecht

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The heart is on the left but always right. ~ Unknown

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. ~ O.A. Battista

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Unknown

That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth

Sometimes somebody says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart. ~ Unknown

Romance is like chess-one false move and you're mated. ~ Unknown

Perhaps LOVE is the process of me leading you gently back to yourself. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~ John Harrigan

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles

One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul... ~ D. H. Lawrence

One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charles M. Schulz

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. ~ Unknown

Never underestimate the amazing power of love to change hearts and mindsets. Love can even give fresh inspiration to tackle what seems to be impossible. ~ Unknown

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. ~ William Penn

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. ~ John Donne

Love leads to devotion and devotion is the key to success. ~ Anonymous

Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh

Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and see everything you need. ~ Unknown

Love is when you give 60% and take 40%. ~ Unknown

Love is trembling happiness. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love is timeless, it is the memory of past, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. ~ Unknown

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ H. L. Mencken

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. ~ Sam Shepard

Love is the fairest flower that blooms in God's Garden. ~ Anon

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. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ~ Toni Morrison

Love is not love until love's vulnerable. ~ Theodore Roethke

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ~ Bette Davis

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon

Love is more easily demonstrated than defined. ~ Anon

Love is like standing in wet cement , the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind. ~ Unknown

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown

Love is like a violin, the music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ~ Unknown

Love is like a tranquil breeze that sweeps over my soul making me whole. ~ Unknown

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours....And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Love is like a bus, if you miss it, don't worry, you'll catch another one. ~ Unknown

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts! ~ Unknown

Love is giving and sometimes giving means giving in. ~ William Oak

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. ~ Robert Frost

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ~ Anon

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov

Love is a trick of the heart to fool the mind. ~ Unknown

Love is a science; It is all about passionate chemistry, dimensionless physics with a bit of biology thrown in. ~ Unknown

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. ~ Bertrand Russell

Love is a flower and you its only seed. ~ Amanda McBroom

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me'. ~ Leo Buscaglia
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

- @dh3 -

Wise Words

2010-02-18T00:36:00.000-08:00

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Always when judging, Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far." ~Robert Brault,

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" ~Oprah Winfrey

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner

Mother...

2010-02-18T00:01:00.000-08:00

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

The sweetest sounds to mortals given. Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Adabella Radici

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de Balzac

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~Washington Irving

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. ~Robert Brault

My mother is a poem, I'll never be able to write, though everything I write, is a poem to my mother. ~Sharon Doubiago

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world. ~Kate Douglas Wiggin

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. ~Author Unknown

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb

The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb

Funny Quotes

2010-02-17T09:37:00.000-08:00

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. ~Maryon Pearson

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. ~Homer Simpson

Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling. ~Author Unknown

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'. ~Homer Simpson

Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die. ~Author Unknown

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~Whitney Brown

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. ~Author Unknown

The road to success is always under construction. ~Author Unknown

"Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back." ~Al Bundy

Every time i find the key for success someone goes and change all the locks. ~Author Unknown

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

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor as long as you have money. ~Author Unknown

When someone says your ugly, just tell them that ugliness can be fixed, stupidity can't! ~Author Unknown

If a person suffered from amnesia and was cured, would they actually remember that they forgot? ~Jeff Foxworthy

We all get heavier as we get older just because there's a lot more information in our heads. ~Author Unknown

I'm not short, I'm compact size for your traveling conveniences." ~Briana C. McNair

If men honestly answered the facebook question: What's on your mind? Facebook would be like a pornsite. ~Author Unknown

Women are like country western songs...they're annoying, they all sound alike, but if you really listen to them you'll get depressed and drink a lot! ~Author Unknown

"I got my wife a mood ring. It works real good! When shes in a good mood it turns blue, but when shes in a bad mood theres a red mark across my forehead" ~Jeff Foxworthy

Marriage...

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Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ~George Bernard Shaw

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson

Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ~Judith Viorst

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~Menander

If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ~W. Somerset Maugham

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~Beverley Nichols

Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is. ~Author Unknown

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

One should never know too precisely whom one has married. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~Max Kauffman

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ~James C. Dobson

Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence. ~Author Unknown

Women...

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Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright

Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ~George Eliot, "The Harvest Supper," Adam Bede

Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ~Elsa Schiaparelli

A woman should soften but not weaken a man. ~Sigmund Freud

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~Alfred Capus

The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~Tallulah Bankhead

Friend...

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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is Love, without his wings. ~Lord Byron, L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison

In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton

Love...

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ~ Helen Rowland

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. ~ National Lampoon

Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ~ Sappho

Don't spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with someone you can't live without. ~ Anon

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia

He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~ Euripides

Happiness is being married to your best friend. ~ Anon

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. ~ Robert Browning

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend". ~ Anon

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. ~ Hesiod

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~ Judy Garland

Every man loves two women; one is the creation of his imagination, and the other is not yet born. ~ Khalil Gibran

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love. ~ Albert Einstein

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserved it. ~ Kyle Schmidt

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours....And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato

Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. ~ Unknown

Don't compare our love to the flowers that only bloom on summer, instead, compare it to the river that flows forever. ~ Unknown

Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life. ~ Unknown

A ring is round, it turns forever and that's how long we'll be together! ~ Unknown

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Clarence Thomas

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. ~ Anonymous

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~ Mistinguett

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~ Bil Keane

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. ~ William Shakespeare

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. ~ Anonymous

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything. ~ E E cummings

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~ Unknown

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~ Rose Franken

And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. ~ Saint John of the Cross

All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. ~ Robert Browning

All I need is my one star in the sky to wish for you everday. ~ Anon

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond

You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ Unknown

You know it's love when the tiny details about another person, ones that are insignificant to most people, seem fascinating and incredible to you. ~ Anon

You know it's love when forever is not long enough. ~ Unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~ Jonathan Carroll

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anon

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne Dyer

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~ Amy Carmichael

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserved it. ~ Kyle Schmidt

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