phenomenal woman poem

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer



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



Only dead fish swim with the stream. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~Laurence J. Peter



Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up. ~From the television show Will and Grace



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



It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx



Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost



It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown



Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! ~Heinrich Heine



Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. ~Douglas Jerrold



They are fair resting-places for the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. ~Joaquin Miller (clouds)



Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs. ~Author Unknown



A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen



But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. ~Mark Twain, Huck Finn



Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~Albert Smith



The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition



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