Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
~quote about Love by Lord Dewar
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
~quotes on Grandparents by Fanny Fern
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness
~sayings on Retirement by William Wordsworth
Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.
~quotations on Kisses by Rene Yasenek
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
~funny poem and sayings by Author Unknown
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
~saying about poem by Elizabeth Drew
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
~quote about God by William Ralph Inge
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
~quotes on Nostalgia by Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
Missing someone gets easier everday. Because, even though it is on day further from the last time you saw each other, it is one day closer to the next time you will
~sayings on Love by
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
~quotations on Books Reading by Lord Chesterfield
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
~funny poem and sayings by Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.
~saying about poem by Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
~quote about Taxes by Ronald Reagan
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
~quotes on Money by Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852
The purest education is condensed into the fewest words.
~sayings on Proverbs by
My yoga instructor pissed me off, so I offered him my special moon salutation. Then I slammed my chakra shut right in his face.
~quotations on Yoga by The Quote Garden
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~funny poem and sayings by Leonardo da Vinci
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
~saying about poem by Abbott Joseph Liebling, Do You Belong in Journalism? New Yorker, 4 May 1960
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
~quote about Women's Greetings by Irina Dunn, 1970, commonly misattributed to Gloria Steinem who had quoted Dunn
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
~quotes on Books Reading by André Maurois
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
~sayings on Winter by Ruth Stout
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
~quotations on Self-Control by C.S. Lewis
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
~funny poem and sayings by J. Brotherton
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
~saying about poem by Jesse Jackson
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
~quote about Love by Germaine De Stael
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world
~quotes on Death by Wittgenstein
Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.
~sayings on Sex by Author Unknown
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion
~quotations on Basketball by John Wooden
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.
~funny poem and sayings by John J. Welsh
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
~saying about poem by Theodore Roosevelt
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself
~quote about Attitude by Leo Tolstoy
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
~quotes on Equality Difference by Malcolm X
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.
~sayings on Soccer by Anthony Burgess
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
~quotations on Men by Robert Byrne
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
~funny poem and sayings by Jewish Proverb
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as goodLuckily, this is not difficult
~saying about poem by Charlotte Whitton
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
~quote about Community by Lady Bird Johnson
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers
~quotes on Children by Edgar Watson Howe
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