Q U O T E S    &   P R O V E R B S

 
 
 

Here are some interesting ones that I have come across on the net. Some might have made me think or just made me smile.
 


  

"Just remember once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

"One kind word can warm three winter months." Japanese Proverb.

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."

"Its not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better."

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove then the hunger for bread."

"It is better to die on your feet then to live on your knees!!"

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At age 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

"It is better to be defeated on principle, then to win on lies."

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"Things turn out best for those that make the best of the way things turn out."

"Don't marry the person you can live with, marry the person you can't live without."

"Those who expect nothing shall never be disappointed."

"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

"Friends are the part of our family we get to choose."

"The more I learn the more I learn there's more to learn! Therefore; I believe boredom is a state of mind one chooses over useful activity." - Jan Bowman

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

"Kissing is like drinking salted water: You drink and your thirst increases." - Chinese Proverb

"Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust
Life is too short, So party we must." - Advertisement

"To believe that consciousness can survive the wreck of the brain is like believing that 70 mph can survive the wreck of the car."

"We all can't be heroes.
Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by."

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

"You can be upset because rosebushes have thorns.
Or you can rejoice because thornbushes have roses."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." - G.K. Chesterton

"Love is not blind - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." - Rabbi Julius Gordon

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

"Life isn't fair to men.
When we are born, our mother's get the compliments and the flowers.
When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity
When we die, our widows get the life insurance and winters in Florida.
What do women want to be liberated from?"

"A woman wants one man to meet her every need.
A man wants one woman to meet his one need."

"A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item she dosen't want.
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he DOES want."

"You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to." - Henny Youngman

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it." - Ann Bancroft

"Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge." - Bill Cosby

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." - Benjamin Franklin

"My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way." - Henny Youngman

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." - Rodney Dangerfield

"A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong." - Milton Berle

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." - George Burns

"When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking." - Elaine Boosler

"I bought my wife a new car. She called and said,"There was water in the carburetor."
I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake." - Henny Youngman

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." - Phyllis Diller

"My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping." - Rita Rudner

"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret." - Henny Youngman

"People are always asking couples whose marriages have endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman." - Erma Bombeck

"At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" The other replied, "Yes, I am, I married the wrong man."

"After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you."
The husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."

"A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted." Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."

"I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always."

"Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible."

"I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months -I don't like to interrupt her."

"Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all."

"My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got two girlfriends."

"A husband said to his wife, "No, I don't hate your relatives. In fact, I like your mother-in-law better than I like mine."

"A man meets a genie. The genie tells him he can have whatever he wants, provided that his mother-in-law gets double.
The man thinks for a moment and then says, "OK, give me a million dollars and beat me half to death."

"How do most men define marriage? A very expensive way to get your laundry done free."

"A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to report it because the thief was spending less than his wife did."

"The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once."

"First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

"Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die -- all the undone things, all the misjudged things. Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic."

"Don't waste your time on a man / woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you."

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are beautiful!!!