quotes about nephews and aunts

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~Honore de Balzac



If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with sticks, hit things with sticks. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns. ~National Lampoon, 1979



If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. ~Jack Handy



Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. ~Psalms 104:2-5



God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? ~Martin Buber



Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benet



It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872



Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield



There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ~Alexander Smith



Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~Ruth Benedict



How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset



Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. ~Sydney Smith



If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event... what kind of film would you use? ~Author Unknown



Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. ~Mark Amidon



Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey



Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~G.B. Trudeau



The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~Lewis B. Ergen



How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take? ~Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845



It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. ~J.J. Walsh