Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Fancy]

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jet]

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Children make your life important.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes,
sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest,"
you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my
husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion.
It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

God created man, but I could do better.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

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All quotes by Erma Bombeck

[Fancy]

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~ Plato

[Charming Texan]

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. - Emily Bronte

[Butterbean]

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." ~James Thurber

[JakeTulane]

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." - John Steinbeck

[JakeTulane]

"At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it." - Yukio Mishima

[JakeTulane]

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." - Buddha

[Diva]

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.

~Buddha

[Diva]

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

~T. S. Elliott

[Spirit Dancer]

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

[Spirit Dancer]

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs

[Spirit Dancer]

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm Forbes

[PinkieLee]

I'll sing to you of silver swans, of kingdoms and carillons. I'll sing of bodies intertwined underneath an innocent sky

[PinkieLee]

"Because we have a moment here, let me tell you that I have recently become a secret connoisseur of 'last looks'. You know the way people look at you when they believe it's for the last time? I've started collecting these looks."

[violaine]

the clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness -


trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! -
-- John Muir


we thought, i want to do what John Muir did -
-- Peter Thomas

[Glenn]

A woman's heart will not change with time or season; even if it dies eternally, it will never perish. A woman's heart is like a field turned into a battleground; after all the trees are uprooted and the grass is burned and the rocks are reddened with blood and the earth is planted with bones and skulls, it is calm and silent as if nothing has happened; for the spring and autumn come at their intervals and resume their work.- Kahlil Gibran

[Diva]

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

~Eustache Deschamps

[JakeTulane]

“The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.” - Barbara De Angelis

[JakeTulane]

“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist” - Marquis De Sade