liebe oder doch nur freundschaft

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick



Respect yourself and others will respect you. ~Confucius



The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. ~Norman Douglas



I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Winston Churchill



Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith



Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ~Edna Woolman Chase



Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. ~Author Unknown



A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne



Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973



A metaphor is like a simile. ~Author Unknown



Some people never have anything except ideals. ~E.W. Howe



A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. ~Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed



We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. ~Owen Young We are only young once. That is all society can stand. ~Bob Bowen



Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. ~George du Maurier



When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. ~Laurence Olivier



The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. ~Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896



My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet



How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer



Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858



If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ~Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983