cute quotes for family

The body is a bundle of careful compromises. ~Randolph Nesse and George Williams, Why We Get Sick



The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ~Peter De Vries



The advent of electronic mail is fostering a revival of "the familiar letter." ~Author Unknown



Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown



On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. ~Bruce Willis, on the difference between men and women



For many are called, but few are chosen. ~Matthew 22:14



The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare



The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew. ~Author Unknown



Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron



What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ~P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest



In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ~H.L. Mencken



History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. ~George Macaulay Trevelyan



Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ~Lillian Hellman



A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ~Herbert Prochnow



A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines. ~Martin H. Fischer



Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~Author Unknown



As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell



It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~Colette



Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as... from a lack of bread. ~Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940