love quotes for dad

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown



Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin



The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ~Esther Dyson



When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature! ~Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick



Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ~George Santayana



The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ~Charles Barkley



Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. ~Alice Thomas Ellis



A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ~Proverbs 16:9



People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. ~Ogden Nash



No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras



Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James



That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure. ~Denise McCanles



The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. ~Jennifer Yane



Motto: a short expression of a guiding principle or ideal of behavior; a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use. Example: "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time." ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society



Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ~William Blake



There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw



Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~Timothy Leary