Tuesday, January 5, 2010

I Love You Quotations

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer


The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author Unknown


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown


You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown


You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown


Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig


Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde


Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore


I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown


My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston


I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone


You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer


A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~George Jean Nathan


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald


Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind. ~Author Unknown


Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. ~Author Unknown


We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~W. Somerset Maugham


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown


How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie


Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith


For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/love-you.html

Quotations: Happy Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer


If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart


Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell


So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving


As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher


Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin


Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope


What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981


Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron


He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd


Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner


For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck


For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet


Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert


The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher


Some hae meat and canna eat, -
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
~Robert Burns


It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke


Ah! on Thanksgiving day....
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~John Greenleaf Whittier


Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ~J. Robert Moskin


There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry


Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt



We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder


Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)


Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast,
And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.
~Alice W. Brotherton


On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~Author Unknown


Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
~Joseph Auslander


On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan


It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron


Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
~Robert Herrick


Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser


Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear


We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Author Unknown


To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner


A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero


But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
~Margaret Junkin Preston


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


Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown


God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton


I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans


Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James


Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer


Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. ~Phillips Brooks


Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca


Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November


For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.
~Odell Shepard


If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross


O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
~William Shakespeare


None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown


The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~Ted Allen


And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor


The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown


For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis


Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward


May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
~Author Unknown


Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821


But whether we have less or more,
Always thank we God therefor.
~Author Unknown


Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare


God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward


Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie


Thanksgiving-day, I fear,
If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much
To thank the Lord for blessing o'er,
As for the sake of getting more!
~Will Carleton


I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger


For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason


It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning


Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson


Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O'Rourke


Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain


We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes


Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner


Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/thanksgiving.html

Thinking of You Quotations

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi


I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~John Burroughs


May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~Irish Blessing


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne


Someone remembers, someone cares;
Your name is whispered in someone’s prayers.
~Author Unknown


A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing


God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown


My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~Author Unknown


I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart. ~Albany Bach Reid


May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing


When we're together or when we're apart, you're first in my thoughts and first in my heart. ~Author Unknown


When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me! ~Author Unknown


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald


How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss


The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~Svetlana Alliluyeva


In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World


Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~A.A. Milne


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust


Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ~A.A. Milne

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/thinking-you.html

Quotations for St Valentine's Day

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood


When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein


I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown


I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown


Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown


Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde


In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown


Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning


Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke


Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown


I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning



Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston


Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato


True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood


You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown


Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy


Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer


Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)


Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost


Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac


Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal


Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery


For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare


My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders


Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey


Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"


Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire


The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author Unknown


The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King


My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon


Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/valentine.html

Quotations for Weddings

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown


We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig


I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown


After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~Douglas William Jerrold


[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally


Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders


My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings


I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach


There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown


A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor


Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. ~Author Unknown


Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson


I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner


Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ~Ambrose Bierce


The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin


The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee?
~Author Unknown



The highest happiness on earth is marriage. ~William Lyon Phelps


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë


Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid


I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens


Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a marriage day.
~Francis Quarles


Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning


All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.
~Emily Dickinson


When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. ~The Brahma Sutras


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown


If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
~John Donne


Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings


My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare


There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~Menander


Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship's at an end.
~Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza


One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman


Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell


A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. ~Andre Maurois


Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/weddings.html

New Year Quotations

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan


Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown


Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin


No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb


New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb


Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden


Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland


The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie


The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey


Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850


The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher


New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain


The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis


For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"


We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce


Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain



People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown


And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood


Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~Brooks Atkinson


Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
~Walter Scott


Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde


Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther


A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885


But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide


When then is lost, as time is by,
we look upon the yearly wine
to see our substance in the lees.
Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave?
To look for clear and faithful sense,
that gives a bodied stance bouquet,
then see the vat at mirror's face
and find in it, the yearly pace.
~E. Marshall, Vintner Epilogue (Happy Old Year)


I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary


New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno


We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier


One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs


Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb


A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest


It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ~William Thomas


We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams


He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
~F.M. Knowles


The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry Moore


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~Thomas Mann


I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs Nin


Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it? ~John Dos Passos, 1917


New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain


Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter


The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~W.H. Auden

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/new-year.html

Quotations for Graduations

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success. ~Robert Orben


Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch


Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. ~Gary Bolding


The tassel's worth the hassle! ~Author Unknown


The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. ~Edward Koch


All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. ~Author Unknown


Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici


At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund


When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates


Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~Erma Bombeck


You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ~Tom Brokaw


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle


It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin


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. ~Garry Trudeau


[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980


People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. ~Bill Cosby


The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.
~Author Unknown


Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues. ~Author Unknown


Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein


I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known. ~Author Unknown


Hitch your wagon to a star. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius



Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ~Louisa May Alcott


It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. ~Isabel Waxman


In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen


Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ~Newton D. Baker


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss


Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~B.F. Skinner


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown


The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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. ~Attributed to Mark Twain, unconfirmed


Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein


If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown


Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~A. Lawrence Lowell


If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. ~Carly Fiorina


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book


If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi


I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~Fred Allen


You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~John Updike


We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter


Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings


How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel


There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss


The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~Author Unknown


A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden


The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. ~Russell Green


A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford




Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward


The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ~Henry Ford


Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992 (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech)


The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~Albert Einstein


The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. ~Doug Larson


The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman


The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ~Andy McIntyre


To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne


The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford


Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~Susan B. Anthony


Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ~Roger Babson


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625


Education is the best provision for old age. ~Aristotle


Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills


Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George


What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell


There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself! ~The Quote Garden


Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. ~William Lyon Phelps


My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." ~Jim Fox


During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones


You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/graduation.html

Quotations for Yearbooks

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown


Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com


Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch


Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955


Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle


Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years


When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~Author unknown, from a television commercial


Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. ~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off


God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922


How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss


We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand


Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon


The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell


Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ~Seneca


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain


There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown


It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. ~Isabel Waxman


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost


Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean


Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown


Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley


Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra


If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown


The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau


It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard


It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne


We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson


May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~Irish Blessing


Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/yearbook.html

Quotations: Retirement

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ~Abe Lemons


When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. ~R.C. Sherriff


When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. ~Ella Harris


Retired is being twice tired, I've thought
First tired of working,
Then tired of not.
~Richard Armour


I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. ~Merri Brownworth


Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. ~Gene Perret


I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension! ~Author Unknown


Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. ~Abigail Charleson


Retirement: World's longest coffee break. ~Author Unknown


Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. ~Hartman Jule


O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline -
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
~Oliver Goldsmith


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


Life begins at retirement. ~Author Unknown


The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money. ~Author Unknown


If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson


Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~Gene Perret


There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. ~Robert Half


Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~J. Lubbock


When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. ~Author Unknown


The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. ~George Foreman


Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. ~Gene Perret


I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. ~Hartman Jule


Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ~Jim Bishop


Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ~Harry Vardon


The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ~Author Unknown


Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. ~Gene Perret



Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949


When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. ~Gene Perret


The money's no better in retirement but the hours are! ~Anonymous


When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy


There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes


Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ~Seneca


Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch


A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service. ~Harry Mahtar


Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne


Retire from work, but not from life. ~M.K. Soni


Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You


There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar


I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. ~Gene Perret


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


Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements


Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ~George Burns


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Author Unknown


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith


Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ~Ernest Hemingway


Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth


First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey


In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. ~Gene Perret


Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment. ~Anonymous


The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller


If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin


If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt


Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ~Malcolm Forbes


Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." ~Gene Perret

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/retirement.html

Quotations for Birthdays

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown


There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn


A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown


Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial


Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis


Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing


Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw


In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright


When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Author Unknown


They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown


We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881


Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis


Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz



Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote


Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope


First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey


Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith


I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997


You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost


Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball


May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
~Author Unknown


Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni


Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane


Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/birthday.html

Quotations about Teamwork

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown


No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock


Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. ~Author Unknown


Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi


The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ~Margaret Carty


Many hands make light work. ~John Heywood


One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites. ~Jin Kwon


No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne


Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden


Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb


Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry Ford


None of us is as smart as all of us. ~Ken Blanchard


It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. ~Author Unknown


Team means Together Everyone Achieves More! ~Author Unknown


Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~Andrew Carnegie


Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: "We believe in each other." ~Author Unknown


A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~Author Unknown


Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in "responsibility." ~Amber Harding


We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Meade


The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth


If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford


Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. ~Author Unknown


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


Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. ~Bill Bradley


I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ~Mia Hamm


Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. ~Brian Tracy


No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown


In union there is strength. ~Aesop


Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great


If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. ~Norman Shidle


Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. ~Casey Stengel


It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone. ~Author Unknown


Sure there's no "I" in "team," but there is a "ME"! ~Author Unknown

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/teamwork.html

Quotations about Family

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H


It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller


The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch


Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead


Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown


The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott


Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar


A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash


The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck


When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers


In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence


Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu


An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb


Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble
Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
~Author Unknown


The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813


To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush


When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw


Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard


In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~Herbert Prochnov


Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall


The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford


The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson


Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann


And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Ward Elliot Hour


The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith


Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. ~Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact


In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb


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


The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~Lee Iacocca


Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill


They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. ~Rose Macaulay


What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot


At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"


If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin


In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy


The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason


We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné


Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt


There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley


If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~Fred Allen


The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/family.html

Quotations about Health

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton


There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings


The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil


I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903


Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson


Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948


The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey


Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~Author Unknown


Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx


As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979


In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown


The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990


He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb


If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ~Leon Eldred


Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain


Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers


They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


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


If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein


I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown


Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert Ingersoll


Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt


Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan


Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero


If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~Elbert Hubbard


People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~Laurence Sterne


To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel


The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe, 1800


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb


Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb


There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer


Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. ~Napoleon I


The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing


In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. ~Alison Rose Levy, "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002


Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ~Thomas Browne


What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860


Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust


When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. ~V.L. Allineare


My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Leslie Grimutter


We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome


In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~Cicero



I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. ~B.K.S. Iyengar


Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. ~Charles Simmons


Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.) ~Juvenal


The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb


Nature does require
Her time of preservation, which perforce
I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal
Must give my attendance to.
~William Shakespeare


Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~Josh Billings


A healthy body and soul come from an unencumbered mind and body. ~Ymber Delecto


Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb


Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. ~Leo Tolstoy


Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. ~Thomas Dekker, Westward Ho, 1604


Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. ~Martin H. Fischer


Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman


Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy


Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~V.L. Allineare


A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. ~Francis Bacon


An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb


Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West


Hear your heart. Heart your health. ~Faith Seehill


Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld


From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb


If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep


An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa. ~Madrianne Arvore


Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. ~Author Unknown


Every man's disease is his personal property. ~Alonzo Clark


Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind supports the body too.
~John Armstrong


When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay down and relax for a while before trying to get back up. ~Candea Core-Starke


I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932


Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. ~Joseph Addison


A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. ~Kin Hubbard


Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. ~Aldous Huxley


I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda


If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you. ~Carrie Latet


The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin


The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato


The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932


If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke


To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng


When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb


Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. ~Jules Romains, Dr. Knock, 1923


If your body's not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself. ~V.L. Allineare


After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell


When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner


There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. ~Charles Dickens


Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. ~Martin H. Fischer


Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison


It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. ~DeForest Clinton Jarvis


Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial


The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere


Without health, there is no point. To anything. ~Everett Mámor


Confidence and hope do more good than physic. ~Galen


Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music.
~A. Cornelius Celsus


My inner advisor is dying to heal me. ~Astrid Alauda


Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977


Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer


How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia


Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot


Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891


First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H. Fischer


In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond


He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb


A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter


Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating


It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are "heal." ~Ed Northstrum


If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964


If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose


If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening


It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason


Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown


May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749


What linguistic genius
set up the sneeze and wheeze
To rhyme so very perfectly
with the word for allergies?
~Charlie N. Abbers


Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. ~Sydney J. Harris


My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet


I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer


So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family


Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin


The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. ~Mark Twain

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