sad quotes about pain and love

A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverb



Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. ~Author Unknown



Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~Saul Bellow



My cock doesn't talk politics. ~Stephal Sachs



To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment. ~William McKinley



Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver



To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton



It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



Smile - it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown



Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown



To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion



Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory. ~Wynford Vaughan-Thomas



The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess



Flowers really do intoxicate me. ~Vita Sackville-West



Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights. ~Author Unknown



Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ~Adlai Stevenson



It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~Marsha Norman