Parenting Quotes

by: Author Unknown,

“Women shouldn’t have children after 35. Thirty-five children are enough.”

“Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.”

“A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.”

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”

New Year Quotations

by: Author Unknown,

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.

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

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

Dog Quotes To Enjoy

by: Author Unknown,

In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog.

In dog years I'm dead.

"Lay down, pup; lay down," ordered the man. "Good doggie — "lay down, I say.""You'll have to say 'Lie Down,' mister," declared a bystander. "That's a Boston Terrier."

Maybe you've been looking for love in all the wrong places. A dog will treat you better than anyone you'll meet at happy hour. Trust me. I've been to happy hour.

My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.

My sunshine doesn't come from the skies,It comes from the love in my dog's eyes.

Never trust a dog to watch your food.

One fine autumn day, Jim was out raking leaves when he noticed a hearse slowly drive by. Following the first hearse was a second hearse, which was followed by a man walking solemnly along, followed by a dog, and then about two hundred men walking in single file.

Intrigued, Jim went up to the man following the second hearse and asked him who was in the first hearse."My wife," the man replied."I'm sorry," said Jim. 'What happened to her?""My dog bit her and she died."Jim then asked the man who was in the second hearse.The man replied, "My mother-in-law. My dog bit her and she died as well."Jim thought about this for a while. He finally asked the man, "Can I borrow your dog?"The man sighed, "Get in line."

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.

Puppy Love will lead you to a dog's life.

Recipe:

A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog won't eat.

Researchers have discovered that dogs can comprehend a vocabulary of 2,000 words, whereas cats can only comprehend 25 to 50. No one ever asks how many words the Researchers can comprehend.

She is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are her life, her love, her leader. She will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of her heart.

Sign In Pet Store: "Buy one dog, get one flea."

Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.

The Best Part About Owning A Dog... ...

s the way he will come over to see me, for no reason, just to let me know I'm important to him... is the way he is always ready to lick the jelly off my nose...

is the way he looks into my eyes and finds contentment in simply being near me...

is the way he will run all over the yard, fetch a soggy tennis ball and bring it back to me as if to say "look mom, it's all I have, but it's yours"...

is the way he wakes me up in the morning by pushing his cold wet nose in my ear and snuffling loudly...

is the way he shreds toilet paper all over the house, because it's fun even though he knows he shouldn't...

is the way he's sure he can catch the ducks in the lake today...

is the way he comes over to me when he is sad...

is the way he wedges himself near me when I am sad and push all others away, to console me with his love...

is the way he pounces on crickets in the backyard...

is the way he looks perplexed when they escape...

is the way he is terrified of the evil pink hula hoop...

is the way he doesn't mind how much of that horrid perfume I'm wearing just because it was a gift from my relative who's visiting...

is the way he doesn't care about bad hair day or overdue bills...

is the way he loves me, even when I am impatient with him and have no time this morning for a game of tug-a-war...

is the way his coat feels like liquid silk under my fingers...

is the way he finds wisdom beyond words.

The Chow is a dog, who is a master, looking for a master, who is not a dog.

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.

The dog with the bone is always in danger.

The first rule in successful dog training is to be smarter than the dog. Which is why some breeds are easier to train than others.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs!

The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.

There is no snooze button on a dog who wants breakfast.

To a dog the whole world is a smell.

Upon entering the little country store, the stranger notice a sign saying "DANGER! BEWARE OF DOG!" posted on the glass door. Inside he noticed a harmless old hound dog asleep on the floor beside the cash register. He asked the store manager, "Is THAT the dog folks are supposed to beware of?""Yep, that's him," he replied.The stranger couldn't help but be amused. "That certainly doesn't look like a dangerous dog to me. Why in the world would you post that sign?""Because," the owner replied, "before I posted that sign, people kept tripping over him."

When a dog wags her tail and barks at the same time, how do you know which end to believe?

When it's raining cats and dogs, be sure not to step in the poodles.

When old dogs bark, it's time to watch out.

When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long.

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

Whoever said "let sleeping dogs lie" didn't sleep with dogs.

You can take the dog out of the wolf pack, but you can't take the wolf pack out of the dog.

Work can wait another 30 minutes. There are more important things to do. Like throwing sticks.
You can't expect to be a "lucky dog" if you spend all your time growling.

You can't keep a good man down — or an overly affectionate dog.

You do not own a dog, the dog owns you.

You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.

Dog Quotes

By: Author Unknown,

A bicycle does get you there and more. And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun.

A blind person walking down Yonge Street in Toronto commanded his dog to turn right to what he thought was the subway entrance. He had miscalculated and found himself completely disoriented in a dead-end alley. A passerby saw his dilemma and asked if he could help."Yes, thank you," said the blind man, "I was trying to get to the subway."The man leaned over to the dog and said slowly and distinctly into the dog's ear, "Take... him... to... the... subway."

A cat sees us as the dogs. A cat sees himself as the human.

A dog may bark, but his legs will never grow longer.

A dog will quickly turn you into a fool, but who cares? Better your dog than your boss. I'm a fool for my dog and proud of it.

A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark.

A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. "Well, my mother-in-law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome."

A guy wanted to take his Chihuahua into a restaurant with him, so he put on dark glasses and "tapped" his way in the establishment.The waiter said, "Hey! You can't bring a dog in here."The man indignantly claimed, "I'm blind! This is my seeing eye dog!""You're trying to tell me," said the waiter, "that this Chihuahua is a seeing eye dog?""What???!" cried the man, "they gave me a Chihuahua?"

A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away.

All trees have bark. All dogs bark. Therefore, all dogs are trees. The fallacy of barking up the wrong tree.

Barking dogs don't bite people they don't know.

Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.

Customer: "Has this dog a good pedigree?"Shop Owner: "Has he? Say, if that dog could talk, he wouldn't speak to either of us."

Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!"... till you can find a rock.

Dogs and cats instinctively know the exact moment their owners will wake up. Then they wake them 10 minutes sooner.

Dogs are better than children. Even my friends with children say that. As a dog friend of mine likes to say, children are for people who can't have dogs.

Dogs are lousy poker players. When the get a good hand they wag their tails.

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.

Don't litter. Spay & neuter your pets.

Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won't use it.

Every dog has his day — but the nights are reserved for the cats.

For months he had been her devoted admirer. Now, at long last, he had collected up sufficient courage to ask her the most momentous of all questions."There are quite a lot of advantages in being a bachelor," he began, "but there comes a time when we long for the companionship of another being — a being who will regard one as perfect, as an idol; whom one can treat as one's absolute property; who will be kind and faithful when times are hard; who will share one's joys and sorrows."To his delight he saw a sympathetic gleam in her eyes. Then she nodded in agreement."So you're thinking of buying a dog?" she said. "I think it's a fine idea. Do let me help you choose one!"

Foxes, rejoice! Here buried lies your foe.
Unknown Author (epitaph inscribed on a wall stone in Euston Park, England)

Greyfriars Bobby.

Died 14th Jan 1872.

Aged 16 years.

Let his loyalty & devotion

Be a lesson to us all.
Unknown Author (inscription on Bobby's headstone, as tribute to the Skye terrier who slept on his master's grave every night for fourteen years. American donors erected the tribute in the 1930s.)

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

I didn't know if there was a special dog that she was looking for. She just slowly walked through the little burial plot, reading the names and pausing now and then to stop by a gravestone. She stooped down once to touch one of the grave markers and to brush something off of it. She looked sad and thoughtful, and finally left, without saying a word.
Unknown member of Queen Elizabeth's household, talking about the queen's visit to the cemetery on the castle grounds, where her dogs are buried.

I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

I love my master;Thus I perfume myself with this long-rotten squirrel.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
I went to the cinema the other day and in the front row was an old man and with him was his dog. It was a sad funny kind of film, you know the type. In the sad part, the dog cried his eyes out and in the funny part, the dog laughed its head off. This happened all the way through the film. After the film ended, I decided to go and speak to the man."That's the most amazing thing I've seen," I said. "That dog really seemed to enjoy the film."The man turned to me and said, "Yeah, it is. He hated the book."

I've been in the hotel business over thirty years. Never yet have I called the police to eject a disorderly dog during the small hours of the night. Never yet has a dog set the bedclothes afire from smoking a cigarette. I've never found a hotel towel or blanket in a dog's suitcase, nor whiskey rings on the bureau top from a dog's bottle. Sure the dog's welcome.P.S. If he'll vouch for you, come along too.
Unknown hotel manager's reply to a vacationer writing to ask if dogs were permitted

If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,

If you can face the world without lies and deceit,

If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion or politics,

Then, my friend, you are almost as good as your dog.
Another version is just below.

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can get going without pep pills,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can conquer the world tension without medical help,

If you can relax without liquor,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

Then, my friend, you are almost as good as your dog.

If you owe a dog anything, call him "sir."

If you want the best seat in the house, move the dog.

If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either.

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.

It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

by: Author Unknown,
Author Unknown - - It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.
Author Unknown - - Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
Author Unknown - - Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown - - It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
Author Unknown - - One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.
Author Unknown - - A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Author Unknown - - Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Author Unknown - - Where ambition ends happiness begins.
Author Unknown - - If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Author Unknown - - Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Author Unknown - - The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
Author Unknown - - The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Author Unknown - - Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Author Unknown - - The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.
Author Unknown - - Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
Author Unknown - - The best way to end a war is not to begin it.
Author Unknown - - People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown - - Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.
Author Unknown - - You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.
Author Unknown - - If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Author Unknown - - The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.
Author Unknown - - A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
Author Unknown - - If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Author Unknown - - Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown - - After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
Author Unknown - - The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
Author Unknown - - Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
Author Unknown - - Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.
Author Unknown - - Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown - - The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
Author Unknown - - If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Author Unknown - - It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Author Unknown - - He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
Author Unknown - - Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."
Author Unknown - - A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
Author Unknown - - So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Author Unknown - - A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
Author Unknown - - Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
Author Unknown - - The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
Author Unknown - - Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Author Unknown - - Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
Author Unknown - - An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
Author Unknown - - "What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"
Author Unknown - - Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
Author Unknown - - The shortest answer is the doing the thing.
Author Unknown - - Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
Author Unknown - - Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Author Unknown - - No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Author Unknown - - Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted
Author Unknown - - Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Author Unknown - - Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
Author Unknown - - Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Author Unknown - - Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Author Unknown - - The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.
Author Unknown - - The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
Author Unknown - - One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
Author Unknown - - A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown - - A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Author Unknown - - Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
Author Unknown - - Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Author Unknown - - The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
Author Unknown - - Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Author Unknown - - Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Author Unknown - - Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
Author Unknown - - Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Author Unknown - - When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Author Unknown - - No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing
Author Unknown - - There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.
Author Unknown - - A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Author Unknown - - Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
Author Unknown - - A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
Author Unknown - - "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
Author Unknown - - Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
Author Unknown - - We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Author Unknown - - He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
Author Unknown - - Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.
Author Unknown - - An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
Author Unknown - - One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
Author Unknown - - Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.
Author Unknown - - Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
Author Unknown - - The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Author Unknown - - Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."
Author Unknown - - The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
Author Unknown - - Hate pollutes the mind.
Author Unknown - - Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
Author Unknown - - Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
Author Unknown - - Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
Author Unknown - - Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Author Unknown - - Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Author Unknown - - The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
Author Unknown - - There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.
Author Unknown - - Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
Author Unknown - - No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Author Unknown - - Education is not received. It is achieved.
Author Unknown - - The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Author Unknown - - Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown - - We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Author Unknown - - The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.
Author Unknown - - Age withers only the outside.
Author Unknown - - Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown - - The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Author Unknown - - Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
Author Unknown - - Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown - - So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Author Unknown - - Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
Author Unknown - - Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
Author Unknown - - Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
Author Unknown - - If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.
Author Unknown - - Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Author Unknown - - Friendship is love with understanding.
Author Unknown - - Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown - - Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Author Unknown - - None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.
Author Unknown - - Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.
Author Unknown - - The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.
Author Unknown - - Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
Author Unknown - - "Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Author Unknown - - When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown - - Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Author Unknown - - The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Author Unknown - - There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
Author Unknown - - Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Author Unknown - - It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
Author Unknown - - Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
Author Unknown - - Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Author Unknown - - When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
Author Unknown - - A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Author Unknown - - It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Author Unknown - - Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
Author Unknown - - Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
Author Unknown - - Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Author Unknown - - To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well
Author Unknown - - Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Author Unknown - - A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
Author Unknown - - It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
Author Unknown - - To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Author Unknown - - To save time is to lengthen life.
Author Unknown - - If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
Author Unknown - - Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.
Author Unknown - - Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
Author Unknown - - Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
Author Unknown - - Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown - - Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
Author Unknown - - Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.
Author Unknown - - A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Author Unknown - - You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
Author Unknown - - You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown - - If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
Author Unknown - - We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.
Author Unknown - - Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
Author Unknown - - No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
Author Unknown - - Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
Author Unknown - - The guilty catch themselves.
Author Unknown - - If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
Author Unknown - - Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
Author Unknown - - One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
Author Unknown - - A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.
Author Unknown - - Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
Author Unknown - - Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Author Unknown - - Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.
Author Unknown - - Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
Author Unknown - - What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Author Unknown - - Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.
Author Unknown - - It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Author Unknown - - The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Author Unknown - - Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Author Unknown - - Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.Author Unknown - - Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Author Unknown - (apocryphal)- The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.
Author Unknown - - Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Author Unknown - - Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
Author Unknown - - Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Author Unknown - - One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Author Unknown - - Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Author Unknown - - A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Author Unknown - - A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?""Only the village druggist," was the answer."And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman."Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

Author Unknown - - Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown - - You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

Author Unknown - - It is better to live richly than to die rich.

Author Unknown - - Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.

Author Unknown - - Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

Author Unknown - - Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Author Unknown - - If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Author Unknown - - If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

Author Unknown - - If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Author Unknown - - It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown - - A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

Author Unknown - - Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Author Unknown - - If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

Author Unknown - - Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Author Unknown - - Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

Author Unknown - - Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.

Author Unknown - - People who know the least always argue the most.

Author Unknown - - Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

Author Unknown - - The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Author Unknown - - Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

"You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."

by: Author Unknown

"You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."
"You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days."
"Why are people's "deepest desires" always so shallow?"
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
"When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading."
"We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way."
"They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles."
"There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it."
"There is no 'I' in 'team.' "
"The truth is always a trick to those who live among lies."
"The biggest risk is not taking one."
"Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them."
"Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side."
"Someone doing it often interrupts the person saying it cannot be done."
"Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought."
"Socialism: An attempt to curb the destructive power of monopolies by creating the biggest one of all."
"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."
"Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning."
"Remember when safe sex meant not getting caught?"
"Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient."