love quotes for mothers

History is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. ~Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History



There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. ~Joseph Addison



I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~Alex Karras



Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. ~Author Unknown



The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903



Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. ~Proverbs 17:28



The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~Author Unknown



Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Medvedenko: "Why do you always wear black?"



Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law



Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan



A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ~Carl Sandburg



Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ~Alice Childress



My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ~Shel Silverstein



I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. ~Adeline Knapp I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy



People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide Briand



Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ~Socrates



It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois