ONE LIFE
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
--Euripides
EXPENSES
"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship"
- Benjamin Franklin
ECONOMIZE
"He who does not economize will have to agonize"
-Confusius
ABILITY TO STICK TO ONE THING
"Consider the postage stamp; Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there"
- Josh Billings
GREAT MINDS
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
~ Washington Irving
MAKE THE MOST OF YOURSELF
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A HAPPY LIFE
"A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent."
--Carol Holmes
A MAN LOVES...
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
-- Irish proverb
BEING RIGHT
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day"
- Anonymous
MOTHERīS LOVE
"Motherīs love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
-- Erich Fromm, psychologist
A MOTHER LOVES HER CHILDREN...
"A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved."
-- Kate Samperi, "Mothers"
MOST IMPORTANT...FATHER CAN DO
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
LOVING THEIR PARENTS
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
-- Oscar Wilde
TWO ENDS
"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."
--Ann Landers
LOVING PERSONALITY
"The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower."
--Gary Zukav
HUMAN SPIRIT
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."
--George C. Scott
YOU ARE...
"You are the trip I did not take;
You are the pearls I can not buy;
You are my blue Italian lake;
You are my piece of foreign sky. . ."
by Anne Campbell
FATHER LEARNED
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain
SOAP ON A ROPE
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is Soap-on-a-Rope."
-- Bill Cosby (Quotez)
RICHER THAN GOLD
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be
I had a mother who read to me.
--Strickland Gillilan
WOMEN KNOWN
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
And stringing pretty words that make no sense.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
FATHERHOOD IS...
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
-- Bill Cosby (Quotez)
WONDERFUL MOTHER
God made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old.
He made her smile of the sunshine,
And He molded her heart of pure gold.
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks fair roses you see.
God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dear mother to me.
--Pat OīReilly
GOD COULD NOT BE EVERYWHERE...
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
Jewish Proverb
MIRACLE OF LIFE
Before you were conceived I wanted you... Before you were born I loved you... Before you were here an hour I would die for you... This is the miracle of life...
~Maureen Hawkins~
