quotes for parents

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly



After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw



The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ~George Bernard Shaw



It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown



Wear a smile - one size fits all. ~Author Unknown



God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. ~Terri Guillemets



College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ~George Gobel



Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top



If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911



The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang



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



In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow



Some defeats are more triumphant than victories. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588



The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1905



Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~Soren Kierkegaard



The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. ~Giosue Borsi



We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne



Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe. ~Benny Hill



With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966