Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. ~Dee Snider
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog"
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner
Mother knows breast. ~Author Unknown
History paints the human heart. ~Napoleon I
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Terri Guillemets
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~Ghose Aurobindo
Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. ~Jean Jaures
How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day. ~Ken Travous
Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them. ~Lemony Snicket
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anais Nin
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. ~Louis D. Brandeis
First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children. ~Milton Greenblatt
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates
All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. ~Mark Twain, about the Devil
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ~Russell Baker