quotes on parents love
Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. ~Beth McCollister
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. ~Jean de La Bruyere, Les Caracteres, 1688
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ~Herbert Agar
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ~Samuel Butler
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. ~Pam Brown
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
Ignorance and prejudice are fuelling the spread of a preventable disease. World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS.... It's up to you, me and us to stop the spread of HIV and end prejudice. ~worldaidsday.org, 2006
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ~Gore Vidal
Depression is rage spread thin. ~George Santayana
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Mark Twain, attributed
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ~Eric Hoffer Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special. ~Chris Rock
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown
We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us. ~Author Unknown
Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy. ~Author Unknown
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: from academe A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull
The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963
