quotes about children and love

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg



Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... ~Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991



Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ~Leo Buscaglia



There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. ~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve



I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. ~Allan Wells, referring to Carl Lewis, 1989



All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close



I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling



Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. ~Lou Krieger



Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~Edward R. Murrow



Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986



Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore. ~Lauren Springer



Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



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



If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. ~Will Rogers



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



Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See



Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson



Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown



I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991