The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
~quote about Marriage by Richard Steele, The Spectator
Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
~quotes on Baseball by Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
~sayings on Inner Child by Sigmund Freud
The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.
~quotations on Teenagers by Author Unknown
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~never good enough quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.
~saying about never enough by Spanish Proverb
Don't just do something - sit there!
~quote about Yoga by Author Unknown
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
~quotes on Nature by Walt Whitman
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
~sayings on Age by G. Norman Collie
There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.
~quotations on Quotations by Dave Barry, Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.
~never good enough quotes by Author Unknown
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
~saying about never enough by Buddha
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~quote about Grief by Jacques Prévert
If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
~quotes on Sisters by Linda Sunshine
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
~sayings on Charm by Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
~quotations on Grandparents by Pam Brown
The true form is magnificently illuminated with gleaming fire. The teaching's voice is total silence amid the ringing of wind chimes. The moon hangs in the old pine tree, cold in the falling night. The chilled crane in its nest in the clouds has not yet been aroused from its dreams
~never good enough quotes by Hongzhi Zhengjue
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~saying about never enough by Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
~quote about Books Reading by Paul Sweeney
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
~quotes on Quotations by Thomas Babington Macaulay
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile
~sayings on Love Quotes by David Myers
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
~quotations on Complaining by Samuel Johnson
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law
~never good enough quotes by Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~saying about never enough by William Faulkner
By night, an atheist half believes in God.
~quote about God by Edward Young, Night Thoughts
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age
~quotes on Birthdays by Lucille Ball
He seemed to have an obligation to hit
~sayings on Baseball by Lou Brock
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~quotations on Politics by Oscar Ameringer
You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.
~never good enough quotes by Author Unknown
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
~saying about never enough by David Russell
Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one.
~quote about Golf by Martha Beckman
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
~quotes on God by Carl Jung
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
~sayings on Smiles by Phyllis Diller
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
~quotations on Dogs by Jon Winokur
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
~never good enough quotes by William R. Inge
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
~saying about never enough by Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
~quote about Food by Ernestine Ulmer
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
~quotes on Curiosity by Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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