william wordsworth daffodils poem

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966



An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. ~Elbert Hubbard



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Attributed to Mark Twain, unconfirmed



While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor



It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. ~Mae West



Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917



A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda



The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau



My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~Mark Twain



Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe. ~Luther Burbank, Why I Am an Infidel



Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb



You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss. ~Author Unknown



Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ~Douglas Jerrold, "Meeting Troubles Half-Way," 1859



The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain



A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~Henry Ford



Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~Jim Rohn



Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. ~Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism



Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ~Earl Weaver