Smart Stuff

Instead of loving your enemy, treat your friends a little better.
Edgar Watson Howe

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon
We have never understood the fear of some parents about babies getting mixed up
in the hospital. What difference does it make if you get a good one?
Heywood Broun
My parents, at least my mother, imagined that what I wanted was love while I […]

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
Living in the past has one thing in it’s favor - it’s cheaper. Anon
An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain. Anon
Obligations, hatreds, injuries - What […]

Patience, and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.
German Proverb
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
William Shakespeare

If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.
African Proverb
The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of it’s people.
African Proverb
I can’t take a well-tanned person seriously.
Cleveland Amory
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.
Victor Borge
I love the people with their simple straightforward minds. It’s only their smell […]

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
The maxim “Nothing avails but perfection” may be spelled “Paralysis.”
Winston Churchill
Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.
Salvadore Dali
Nobody’s perfect.
Joe E. Lewis
Perfection has one great defect. It is apt to be dull.
William Somerset Maugham
The […]

A pessimist is a person who stops by the meat market before he goes hunting and
has a chicken sent home. Anon
If it were not for the optimist, the pessimist would never know how happy he
wasn’t.
Anon
Pessimist is a word used by optimists to describe a realist. Anon
When things appear to be improving, you must have […]

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are all yellow.
Thomas Carlyle

You see me as an atheist. God sees me as the loyal opposition.
Woody Allen
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen
From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth,
From the laziness that is content with half-truths,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truths,
O God […]

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
Goethe