memorial quotes for loved ones
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. ~Author Unknown
I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man. ~Stephen Vincent Benet
No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann
I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity. ~Erkki Melartin
Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. ~A.B. Christie
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. ~J.T. Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stronger, 1987
I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man. ~Stephen Vincent Benet
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. ~Dan Bennett
We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it. ~John Sherman
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~Adlai Stevenson
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf. ~Roy Blount, Jr.
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. ~Malcolm Muggeridge
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ~Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb
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