The Compleat Mother Quotes Page

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"A woman is like a tea bag: You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

--- Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965

"One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay "in kind" somewhere else in life."

---Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
- G.K. Chesterton

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."
-author unknown

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
- G. K. Chesteron

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable."
- Sydney J. Harris

"Life is the childhood of our immortality."
  -- Johann vonGoethe

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank-account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the make of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a child."
-Author Unknown

"Hatred paralyzes life;
love releases it.
Hatred confuses life;
love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life;
love illuminates it."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.  The only consequence is what we do."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Joseph Addison

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still."
- Anonymous, Old Chinese Proverb

"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most
difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

"Never cut down a tree in the wintertime:  Never make a negative
decision in the low time."

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as in playing
a poor hand well."

"The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved."
-Princess Diana

"There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, speed and
forgetting."
- Milan Kundera

"All children behave as well as they are treated."
~Jan Hunt, The Natural Child

"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed.
Then it is violently opposed.
Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."    -Schoepenhouer

"The nicest thing about being in business is that you only have to work half-a-day. And it doesn't matter which half you work, as long as you work 12 hours a day, eight days a week, then you will be successful. Ain't business fun?"

"The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it."
- Anonymous


Murphy's Law

On the eighth day God said "OK, you can take over now Murphy".

A drug is a substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a
scientific report.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism

If anything can go wrong, it will
If anything can't go wrong, it will
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will
If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in the worst
possible sequence.
If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it
would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

The solving of a problem lies in finding the solvers

There is nothing so small that it cannot be blown out of proportion.

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that you look forward to the trip.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.

Rule of Creative Research:

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3 Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying.

Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.

Arithmetic is bring able to count up to twenty without taking off your
shoes.

Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.

Hardware: the parts of a computer system that can be kicked.

"God is as real as I am" the old man said. My faith was restored, for
I knew that Santa would never lie.

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get
up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.

Nothing is faster than the speed of light. To prove this to yourself,
try opening the refrigerator door before the light comes on.

RAM= Rarely Adequate Memory.

There's too much blood in my caffeine system.

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