mommy to be quotes

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. ~Charles Simmons



Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ~Jonathan Swift



We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~Syrus



There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain



The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. ~William Penn



There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin



Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown



It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ~Fareed Zakaria



Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ~Ivern Ball



Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton



A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau



Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben



Washington's appointments, when president, were made with a view to gather all the talent of the country in support of the national government; and he bore many things which were personally disagreeable in an endeavor to do this. ~Paul Leicester Ford



The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics. ~Stephen Samuel Wise



I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~Sydney Smith



I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. ~James Douglas



He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ~Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597



A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen