love poems for sisters

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ~Erwin N. Griswold



Curling rocks! ~Saying of the sport



In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935



Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes. ~From a billboard advertisement



To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. ~Sei Shonagon



The past is not a package one can lay away. ~Emily Dickinson



Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ~Barack Obama, 2008 Feb 05, Chicago, Illinois



Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu



We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. ~Alexander Bickel



Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard



You're always in either first or fifth, but you know there's a lot of great gears in between. ~Tony to Angela on Who's The Boss



Attribution: the ascribing of a work (as of literature or art) to a particular author or artist.



The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. ~Sigmund Freud, attributed



There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. ~C.G. Jung



Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621



An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau



Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence. ~Andre Kostelanetz



What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ~Christopher Fry