This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.-Heather Armstrong said at/in Dooce, 11-15-05.That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.-Heather Armstrong said at/in Dooce, 05-04-06.Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.-Pearl Buck said at/in quoted in O Magazine, May 2003.If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.-Dick Cavett.The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.-Jill Churchill said at/in O Magazine, May 2003.The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.-Clarence Darrow.My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.-Peter De Vries.A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.-Dorothy C. Fisher said at/in quoted in O Magazine, May 2003.The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.-Ellen Goodman.The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.-Elain Heffner said at/in O Magazine, May 2003.
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.-Dave Barry.Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.-Jimmy Demaret.If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.-Bob Hope.It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.-H. L. Mencken.Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.-Charles Rosin said at/in Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990.There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.-Charles Rosin said at/in Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990.The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.-Bertrand Russell.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.-Cato the Elder.There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.-Edward Wallis Hoch said at/in Marion (Kansas) Record.Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'-Johann K. Lavater.Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?-Phocion said at/in from Plutarch, Apothegms.Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.-Spanish Proverb.No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.-Sir Philip Sidney.A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.-John Tudor.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.-Walter Bagehot said at/in "Biographical Studies", 1863.Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.-Tallulah Bankhead.Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.-J. G. C. Brainard.The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.-Rene Descartes said at/in 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637.It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.-Abraham Lincoln.Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.-Seneca said at/in Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D..The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.-Elizabeth Taylor.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?-Clarence Darrow.Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.-Robert Graves.The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.-Dave Kellett said at/in Sheldon, 02-01-09.If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.-Doug Larson.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.-Aristotle.Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.-Robert Benchley.Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.-Bono.Humor is just another defense against the universe.-Mel Brooks.Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.-Mel Brooks.That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.-A. Whitney Brown.All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.-Charlie Chaplin said at/in in My Autobiography (1964).Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?-Dick Clark.Total absence of humor renders life impossible.-Colette said at/in Chance Acquaintances, 1952.Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.-Edward De Bono.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.-Sir Francis Bacon.Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.-Demosthenes.Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.-Thomas A. Edison.Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.-Thomas A. Edison.You create your opportunities by asking for them.-Patty Hansen said at/in Prevention Magazine, 11-05.Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.-Henry J. Kaiser.The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.-John F. Kennedy said at/in Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959.There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.-General Douglas MacArthur.You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.-Ellen Metcalf.Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.-Bulgarian Proverb.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.-Robert Benchley.When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.-John B. Bogart.Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.-Roger Caras.I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.-Sir Winston Churchill.Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.-Joe Gores.We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.-Ice T.Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.-Ann Landers.We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.-Maurice Maeterlinck.Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.-Sue Murphy.A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.-Ogden Nash.
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.-Marie Henri Beyle.Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.-Elihu Burritt.Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.-William Carleton.Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.-Joan Didion said at/in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem".The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.-Isabelle Eberhardt.I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.-Nathaniel Emmons.Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.-Sam Ewing.You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.-James A. Froude.Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.-Richard Greenberg said at/in NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.-Herm Albright.I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.-Lisa Alther said at/in Kinflicks, 1975.Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.-William James.The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.-William James.Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.-Lynn Johnston said at/in For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03.A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.-Patricia Neal.Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.-Edith Sitwell said at/in Taken Care Of ,1965.I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.-Martha Washington.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.