cute quotes for family

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson



Quote: v., to repeat or copy the words of, usually with acknowledgment of the source; n., shortened and informal version of the word quotation.



Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm



He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese. ~Sir Thomas More



Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. ~Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection



Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler



There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ~Havelock Ellis



Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman



I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard



As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four." ~Ivan Turgenev



Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~Richard Bach



My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit. ~Phyllis Diller



Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! there is the sting of life. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892



In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. ~Billy Cosby



God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~H. Beerbohm-Tree



You cannot step into the same river twice. ~Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives



You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. ~Frederick Douglass



The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. ~Author Unknown