missing you quotes for him

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. ~Proverbs 13:12



You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks. ~Chef, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride," original airdate 3 September 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone



Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau



The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren



The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher



How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer



One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat. ~Sri Chinmoy



Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. ~Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 1759



I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~John Cage



Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin



Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ~Spike Milligan, The Last Goon Show of All



Perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Adam Bede



Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra



The problem with fundamentalists insisting on a literal interpretation of the Bible is that the meaning of words change. A prime example is 'Spare the rod, spoil the child.' A rod was a stick used by shepherds to guide their sheep to go in the desired direction. Shepherds did not use it to beat their sheep. The proper translation of the saying is 'Give your child guidance, or they will go astray.' It does not mean 'Beat the shit out of your child or he will become rotten' as many fundamentalist parents seem to belive. ~Author Unknown



Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding. ~Sebastian Coe



I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day. ~Ken Travous



Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer



Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~Winston Churchill



The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ~Wallace Stevens