short quotes to live by

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar



Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets



The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. ~Charles and Ann Morse



Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey



To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger. ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. ~Georges Courteline, La Philosophie de Georges Courteline



For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ~Seneca



If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. ~Judith Hayes, In God We Trust: But Which One?



Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ~B.F.Skinner



I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ~James H. Boren



These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ~Sam Snead



Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~George Orwell



If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity. ~Charles Evans Hughes



All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma



Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore



I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ~Francis Bellamy, The Youth's Companion, 8 September 1892 (Thank you, Anna.)



Take care that no one hates you justly. ~Publilius Syrus



Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ~Carl Jung