quotes on love and happiness

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln



If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero



Trees are your best antiques. ~Alexander Smith



You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. ~Bob Sarlette



Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller



The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre



Overcast with drizzles - O! we neurotics welcome the riddance of that pesky sunshine. ~Terri Guillemets



The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. ~Nicholas Chamfort



It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ~R. Serling



I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body. ~Dave Barry



A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven. ~Author Unknown



Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~Franklin Adams



A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954



There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 2



Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Once more the demon of perversity, that stupid demon to whom I owed all my unhappiness - because I had so stupidly obeyed him - intervened again and advised me hypocritically to resist an unhoped-for adventure, a fairy-tale come to life which would never be encountered again and which I ardently desired from the bottom of my heart, and which had actually materialized. No... no! It was too stupid, after all! ~"The Mission," Chapter 8



Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb



Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. ~Jim McKenny