love and time quotes

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~H. Beerbohm-Tree



Men are generally more careful of the Breed of their Horses and Dogs than of their Children. ~William Penn, Fruits of Solitude



A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau



God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? ~Martin Buber



U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown



As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. ~Julius Caesar



When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ~Vincent Van Gogh



One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert



I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. ~Ronald Reagan



We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732



After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6? of marriage! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~Lewis B. Ergen



Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~Alfred Billings Street



We never repent of having eaten too little. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1825



If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin



You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~James Matthew Barrie



Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. ~Karl Marx, Capital, 1867



We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus



He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961