quotes for mothers and daughters

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ~H.L. Mencken



Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud



Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke



Paraprosdokian: figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Example: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~Groucho Marx



Madness! This love was a part of me, like my own flesh; it had taken the place of my blood and marrow; it possessed me entirely; it was I! ~"The Mission," Chapter 8



Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ~Edward Roscoe Murrow, 31 December 1955



But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts," Essays, Second Series, 1844



The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. ~Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions



Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. ~Martin H. Fischer



Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont



It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. ~Walter Scott



As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ~Mel Brooks



If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller



Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life. ~Author Unknown



Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin! ~Author Unknown



Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Strange...a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! ~Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger



Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~George Orwell



You own a dog but you feed a cat. ~Jenny de Vries



There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart