quotes about your son

A good example has twice the value of good advice. ~Author Unknown



It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago. ~Author Unknown



Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought



Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. ~Victor Kiam



If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen



Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ~Louisa May Alcott



Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin



We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan



He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ~Oscar Wilde



No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ~Henry Ward Beecher



A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ~Bill Vaughan



After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~Douglas William Jerrold



Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.... For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. ~Ecclesiastes 2:14, 16



There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides



Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes. ~Eric Gurney



I am my own heaven and hell! ~J.C.F. von Schiller