Quotations about Brothers

November 19, 2008

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.  ~Sam Levenson

It snowed last year too:  I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.  ~Dylan Thomas

A brother is a friend given by Nature.  ~Jean Baptiste Legouve

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see.  I sought my God, but my God eluded me.  I sought my brother and I found all three.  ~Author Unknown

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother – and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.  ~Winston Pendelton

All for one and one for all
My brother and my friend
What fun we have
The time we share
Brothers ’til the end.
~Author Unknown

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
~Author : Anaxagoras from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Inspirational Sayings

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Nice Quotes

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~Author : Henry Winkler Great Sayings

The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced.
~Author : Frank Zappa Meaningful Sayings

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
~Author : Sophocles Antigone Wise Quotes

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
~Author : Rodney Dangerfield monologue Motivational Sayings

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
~Author : Agnes Repplier Famous Quotes

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
~ by Alice Walker

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~ by Jacques Prévert

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
~ by V.S. Pritchett

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
~ by George Bernard Shaw

Few women and fewer men, have enough character and patience to be happy when idle. Happiness is activity. Nature puts her curse on idleness. An idle brain is the devil’s playground.
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There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
~ by Salvador Dali

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
~ by J.D. Salinger

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
~ by William Shakespeare

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
~ by Anatole France

Quotations about Happiness

October 24, 2008

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.  ~Norm Papernick

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

What a wonderful life I’ve had!  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.  ~Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  ~James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.  ~John Barrymore

“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.  ~H. Jackson Browne

Not everybody has to sing the melody.
~Author : Pete Seeger Inspirational Sayings

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
~Author : Euripides Aegeus Nice Quotes

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
~Author : David Grayson Great Sayings

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
~Author : Henri Bergson Meaningful Sayings

To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.
~Author : Chinua Achebe Wise Quotes

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
~Author : Florence Shinn Motivational Sayings

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’.
~Author : Hume Famous Quotes

Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away.
~Author : Robert Orben Inspirational Sayings