mothers day quotes

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. ~Will Rogers


No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. ~Plato


Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. ~Francis C. Farley


For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism


Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866


May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749


I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good - if it's the pepper or the oni. ~Ulrik Stephens


Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."


Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855


Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes


Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. ~Terri Guillemets


Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen


It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner


No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. ~William Ernest Hocking


The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ~Pablo Picasso


Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. ~G.C. Lichtenberg


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison


I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson