quotes on memories

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! ~Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.



The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle



Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Basketball is the MTV of sports. ~Sara Levinson



There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~Woody Allen



A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. ~Author Unknown



Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. ~Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language



Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner



Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ~Paul Eldridge



Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.



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



A clean house is the sign of a boring person. ~Author Unknown



Epigram: a terse, witty, pointed statement, often with a clever twist in thought, or a short poem with a witty or satirical point.



Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown



But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968



Curmudgeon: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner (source: Portable Curmudgeon Redux, Jon Winokur).



Quote A: �Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.� ~John Perry Barlow



The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather