family quotes and sayings

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. ~Kahlil Gibran



However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. ~Henry David Thoreau



The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air. ~Wilbur Wright



A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. ~Lee Drake



From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)



All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother's funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin's wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game. ~Traditional gag notice hung in offices and factories at a time period when all games were played during daylight hours



The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ~A.P. Herbert



History is a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. ~William Carlos Williams



From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. ~Honore de Balzac



Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. ~Author Unknown



Susan: "Sally, does it ever occur to you that age brings wisdom and greater confidence?"



A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ~May Sarton



What is the city but the people? ~William Shakespeare



I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one. Halfway down the birth canal we're already enjoying the view. ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve



Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius



When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb



Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~Norman Vincent Peale



The total person sings not just the vocal chords. ~Esther Broner



One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov