cute quotes for cousins

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? ~Author Unknown



It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ~Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775



It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~Voltaire



If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. ~Barbara L. Diamond If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison



Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ~Douglas Adams



Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage? ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love



In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin



There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus



I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody



Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown



Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley



You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tobasco. ~Bruce Bye



The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ~Mark Twain



Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents. ~Gene Perret



If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there won't be. ~Author Unknown



'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732



The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. ~Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928



My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance