quotes for family

Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly



We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton



The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ~Henry Van Dyke



The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. ~Charles Francis Adams



Me and ice cream. Best friends forever. ~Jessi Lane Adams



The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb



Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler



Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ~Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856



Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus



Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911



The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison



I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore



In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day. ~Anonymous



It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. ~George Burns



There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum



A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ~William R. Inge



You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"



Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? ~Martin H. Fischer