quotes on family bonds

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. ~Mahatma Gandhi



If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb



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One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured. ~Author Unknown



Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. ~Charles Haas



America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ~e.e. cummings



As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity



Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. ~Oxford Union Society, London, Rule 46



Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. ~Montesquieu, Varietes



There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen



Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. ~Alfred North Whitehead



It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891



As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. ~Samuel Johnson



I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ~Mark Twain



Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~Saul Bellow



...for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," about a sculpture, translated by Stephen Mitchell



Not double trouble, but twice blessed. ~Author Unknown



A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce