Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.
-- Libbie Fudim
%Have a Heart
HAPPINESS INSPIRATION LIFE GRADUATION OCCASION
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
-- Charles Dickens
%He Who Can Does
HUMOR LIFE GRADUATION
He who can does, he who cannot teaches.
-- George Bernard Shaw
%Hindsight
HUMOR LIFE BUSINESS
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
-- Billy Wilder
%History Lesson
LIFE HUMOR SCHOOL
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.
-- Anonymous
%All Fools
LIFE
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
-- George Chapman, 1559-1634, from All Fools
%Surprised a Butterfly
HAPPINESS LOVE FRIENDSHIP OCCASION
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods...
-- Edith Wharton
%Take as a Gift
HAPPINESS LIFE BIRTHDAY FRIENDSHIP OCCASION INSPIRATION
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
-- Horace
%Meditations
LIFE CELEBRATION BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
Time is a sort of a river of passing events, and strong is its current;
no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.
and this too will be swept away.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 121-180 AD, Meditations. IV, 43
%Formula for Failure
HAPPINESS RELATIONSHIPS FRIENDSHIP WORK
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
-- Herbert Bayard Swope
%Land on Your Feet
FRIENDSHIP HAPPINESS MOTIVATION INSPIRATION
Here's hoping you land on your feet - and find success soon!
%Happiness Depends
CELEBRATION INSPIRATION FRIENDSHIP
Happiness depends on ourselves.
-- Aristotle
%Success of a Voyage
INSPIRATION LIFE HAPPINESS
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
%A Clown is a Poet
FRIENDSHIP HUMOR
A clown is a poet in action.
-- Henry Miller
%Life is a Tragedy
HAPPINESS FRIENDSHIP LIFE
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in longshot.
-- Charlie Chaplin
%Enjoy the Interval
LIFE HAPPINESS
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana
%Free From Folly
HAPPINESS LIFE
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.
-- La Rochefoucauld
%Joy of Achievement
INSPIRATION ACHIEVEMENT GRADUATION HAPPINESS BUSINESS
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
%Children Imitate
HUMOR LIFE SCHOOL CHILDREN KIDS
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin
%Trapped
LIFE
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
-- James Baldwin
%Judgment Day
HAPPINESS LIFE
A person will be called to account Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
-- Talmud
%Folly
BIRTHDAY HAPPINESS
Folly is our constant companion throughout life. If someone appears wise, it is only because his follies are suited to his age and station.
-- La Rochefoucauld
%Things You've Done
INSPIRATION LIFE HAPPINESS
There is nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.
-- Sara Teasdale
%Like a Violin
FRIENDSHIP LOVE HAPPINESS MARRIAGE
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
-- June Masters Bacher
%To Love
FRIENDSHIP LOVE LIFE HAPPINESS MARRIAGE
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sand
%The Joy Which Brightens
MARRIAGE ANNIVERSARY WEDDING LOVE LYRIC RELIGIOUS
from Hymn 214 of The Common Book of Prayer
Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
And to life's day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.
-- D.F. Gurney
%Making the Decision
FAMILY LIFE
Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-- Elizabeth Stone
%To Err is Human
HUMOR LIFE
To err is human--but it feels divine.
-- Mae West
%I Like Living
LIFE HAPPINESS INSPIRATION HUMOR
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie
%Want the Rainbow
LIFE HAPPINESS
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-- Dolly Parton
%Essence of Pleasure
LIFE
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
-- Germaine Greer
%Miss all the Fun
LIFE HAPPINESS
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
-- Katharine Hepburn
%Reason to be Alive
LIFE HAPPINESS
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
-- Rita Mae Brown
%Part of Life
INSPIRATION LIFE
I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change...I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back...
-- Erica Jong
%Nature
BIRTHDAY LIFE
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
-- Coco Chanel
%Pleasure
LIFE HAPPINESS
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
-- Mary Little
%Responsibility
HUMOR BUSINESS
Responsibility, the high price of self-ownership.
-- Eli Schleifer
%You Write a Hit Play
LIFE BUSINESS
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
-- William Saroyan
%Adversity
INSPIRATION
Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.
-- Samuel Johnson
%Our Children
FAMILY LIFE CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN
Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they grow up--and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough.
-- St. Clair Adams Sullivan
%Good Men Die
FRIENDSHIP LIFE
When good men die, their goodness does not perish.
-- Euripides
%Every Fool
BUSINESS LIFE
Every fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
%Your Judgment
BUSINESS LIFE
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
%Youth
LIFE BIRTHDAY HUMOR
Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children.
-- George Bernard Shaw
%Words
LIFE BUSINESS FRIENDSHIP
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-- Rudyard Kipling
%No Illusions
BUSINESS LIFE
It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull.
-- Joseph Conrad
%Hold a Man Down
INSPIRATION
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
-- Booker T. Washington
%I Like Work
BUSINESS HUMOR WORK
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
%No One Can
BUSINESS LIFE MOTIVATION
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
%See Things
INSPIRATION LIFE
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-- Anais Nin
%Swift With Praise
LIFE
Be swift with praise and slow to anger.
%Music Of Dreams
LIFE HAPPINESS
Dance to the music of your dreams;
the steps will bring you joy.
%Warm Your Thoughts
INSPIRATION LIFE
Warm your thoughts and freeze your fears.
%Muddy Waters
INSPIRATION LIFE
Even muddy water settles into clear.
%Likely As Not
LIFE
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
%Not Only Who
HUMOR LIFE
It's not only who you know, but what you know about who you know that counts.
-- Mrs. C. Lowe
%Sweet Baby (1)
NEW BABY CONGRATULATIONS HUMOR
What do you call an alarm clock that wakes you up every four hours?
%Sweet Baby (2)
NEW BABY CONGRATULATIONS HUMOR
Sweet baby!
Congratulations on your new arrival!
%A Bit Early (1)
NEW BABY HUMOR CONGRATULATIONS
Heard you are already planning for the baby's future...
%A Bit Early (2)
NEW BABY HUMOR CONGRATULATIONS
but isn't it a bit early to send in an application to Harvard?
