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The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Author Unknown



He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. ~W.J. Cameron



None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ~Thurgood Marshall



There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ~Vincent van Gogh



I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere! ~Jean Favre



Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor



You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough. ~Adam Marshall



I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you're gone I just feel bloated. ~Carrie Latet



For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ~James 3:7-8



If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse



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



When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure. ~Anna Quindlen



There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling



The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale



Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~Confucius



Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~Rita Rudner



All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman



Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb