45 quotes
“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
— Voltaire
“Families are like fudge: mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
— Wilfred Peterson
“When your children are teenagers it is important to have a dog in the family so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
— Nora Ephron
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor man, when he has something to eat.”
— Seneca
“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper”
— Alvar Aalto
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
— Hector Berlioz
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
— Fernando Pessoa
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste coveting one anothers desserts.”
— Erma Bombeck
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
— Mark Twain
“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
“People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing. Thats why we recommend it daily.”
— Zig Ziglar
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.”
— William Shakespeare
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with family children.”
— Russell Baker
“The supply of good nature in the world is far in excess of the demand.”
— Josh Billings
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“The family motto of the human race should be: You cant choose your relatives.”
— Terry Pratchett
“A day without laughter is a day wasted in creative spirit”
— Charlie Chaplin
“The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
— Dodie Smith
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Unknown
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Never trust a computer you cannot throw out a window”
— Steve Wozniak
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“Family is a collection of people who share the same genes but cannot agree on a place for dinner.”
— Anne Lamott
“The secret source of humor in a family is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men women an occasional animal and the common cold.”
— Ogden Nash
“A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“If you feel too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito.”
— Mother Teresa
“If you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito”
— Dalai Lama
“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.”
“The best way to keep children at home in a family is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of the tires.”
— Dorothy Parker
“You can observe a lot by watching”
— Yogi Berra
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
— David Tyson
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.”
— Robert Frost
“One of the secrets of family life is that all the really important things are said in jest.”
— Lewis Carroll
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
“Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.”
— George Burns
“A husband in a family is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
— Helen Rowland
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything”
— Irish Proverb
“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday”
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