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A woman knows all about her children.  She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend’s houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.  A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. – Matt Groening

 

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have—so spend it wisely. - Kay Lyons

 

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. -  Mother Theresa

 

My doctor gave me two weeks to live.  I hope they’re in August. – Ronnie Shakes

 

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. – Socrates

 

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. - David Letterman

 

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. - Stanley Horowitz

 

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud

 

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. - Thomas Edison

 

The best thing you can do is get good at being you. -  Dennis the Menace

 

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson

 

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going – P.J. O’Rourke

 

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. - Charles F. Kettering

 

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgi

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

 

Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn't get
you anywhere. - Unknown

 

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. - Kin Hubbard

 

God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for her first question. - Unknown

 

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. - Wilson Mizner

 

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach

 

Happiness depends upon ourselves. -  Aristotle

 

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. - Samuel Goldwyn

 

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn

 

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. - George Bush

 

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you. – James Dillet Freeman

 

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

 

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.' - Ronnie Shakes

 

Character is who you are when no one is watching – Unknown

 

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh

 

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! - George Bernard Shaw

 

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor

 

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby

 

Life is full of obstacle illusions. - Grant Frazier

 

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. - Oliver Goldsmith

 

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Samuel Goldwyn

 

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. - Charles Peters

 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

 

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. – Dr. Laurence J. Peter

 

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope

 

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrews Holmes

 

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. - Malcolm Muggeridge

 

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau

 

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber

 

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Jane Wagner

 

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. - Len Wein

 

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West

 

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey

 

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts. - Denis Waitley

 

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. - Robert Byrne

 

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. - Hagar the Horrible

 

It's not what you are that holds you back.  It's what you think you're not. - Denis Waitley

 

That's why many fail; because they don't get started. They don't go. They don't overcome inertia.  They don't begin. - W. Clement Stone

 

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks. - Groucho Marx

 

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein


If you want to work for world peace, go home and love your families. - Mother Teresa

 

There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when your hand or head is stuck in something. – Peter Kay

 

The only reason I have a kitchen is because it came with the house. – Unknown

 

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter

 

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions. - Michael Josephson

 

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is. - Will Durst

 

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. - Thomas Edison

 

On performance: Do your best, then don t worry about it! - Kent Krive

 

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant – and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker

 

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles M. Schulz

 

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. - Jean-Paul Sartre

 

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. - Abraham Lincoln

 

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - ­ Carl Jung

 

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain

 

My wife and I had words, but I didn't get to use mine. – Unknown

 

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job. - Roseanne Barr

 

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine

 

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

 

Success is a lousy teacher.  It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates

 

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. - Wilson Mizner

 

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. - Unknown

 

Two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long. - Steven Wright
 

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

 

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Sir Winston Churchill

 

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife-a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. – Woody Allen

 

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. - Leo Rosten

 

Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods - cats have never forgotten this. - Unknown

 

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. - Marshall McLuhan

 

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. - Buckminster Fuller

 

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

 

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. - Don Marquis

 

In politics, sincerity is everything.  Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made. -  Groucho Marx

 

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

 

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. - William Safire

 

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. - Solomon Short

 

People are disturbed not by things, but by their perception of things. – Epictetus

 

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. - Thomas A. Edison

 

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle. - Stan Dunn

 

My wife was afraid of the dark, saw me naked, and now she’s afraid of the light. – Rodney Dangerfield

 

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke

 

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. - Robert Byrne

 

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. - Douglas Adams

 

Even very young children need to be informed about dying.  Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child.  This will make threatening him with it much more effective. – P.J. O’Rourke

 

Don’t believe everything you think. – Maxine

 

As long as you stand in your own way, what does it matter what other obstacles you face? - Unknown

 

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. - George Winters

 

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. - Ed Howe

 

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

 

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean

 

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. - Unknown

 

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

 

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying – Fran Lebowitz

 

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are. - Elvis Presley

 

There is no nobility in being superior to another person.  True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self. – Hindu proverb

 

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. – Jean-Baptiste Colbert

 

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. - Bobby Knight

 

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. - Nancy Reagan

 

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. - Unknown

 

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. - Martin Mull

 

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James

 

God’s OK.  It’s his fan club that’s screwed up. – Mark Casoli

 

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. – Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. – Ann Landers

 

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. – Dave Barry

 

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

 

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