Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ~Frank Tyger
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. ~Bill Copeland
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~Steel Magnolias
Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. ~Martin H. Fischer
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. ~Deborah Moggach
Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. ~Charles M. Crowe
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy
Old age ain't no place for sissies. ~Bette Davis
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
Bon mot: a witticism, a clever or witty turn of phrase; a bon mot is a particularly well-turned phrase, distinguished more by wittiness than by profundity. Example: "Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do." ~Oscar Wilde
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. ~Robert Ingersoll, quoted in Ingersoll the Magnificent
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, "Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house. ~Jim Lemon
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. ~Ambrose Bierce
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ~Christopher Morley
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Proverb
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ~Norman Brown
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ~Joseph Campbell
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. ~Philip G. Hamerton
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~Erich Fromm
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