quotes on uncles

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ~Will Rogers



Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood



Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



...And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Miracles"



Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. ~Abraham Lincoln



Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you. ~W. Somerset Maugham



Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ~Feodor Dostoevski



As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations



Women who miscalculate are called mothers. ~Abigail Van Buren



I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying



It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ~Proverbs 21:9



No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. ~Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel, 1572



If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. ~Linda Sunshine



The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958



O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! ~Romans 11:33



Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~Mark Twain



Reality bites... and doesn't let go. ~Author Unknown



God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr