Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ~Franklin Pierce Adams
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~Lucy Larcom
Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. ~Suzanne Necker
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. ~Charles M. Allen
I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium." ~Steven Wright
That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom. ~Alvin Owsley
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. ~Bruce Catton, Prefaces to History
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. ~Billie Jean King, about tennis
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ~William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~Will Rogers
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
There's such a thin line between winning and losing. ~John R. Tunis
Education is the best provision for old age. ~Aristotle
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Parents have to take better control. ~Charles Barkley
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ~Eric Hoffer
God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne
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