father jack quotes

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie Latet


They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb


Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. ~James Laver


Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ~William Blake


I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. ~Peter O'Toole, on psychoanalysis


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


The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov


Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head. ~Graffiti


Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~Edward R. Murrow


By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ~Bill Dana


Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ~Proverbs 15:17


You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~Ruth E. Renkl


Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd


A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. ~Harold MacMillan


Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe


Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. ~William Penn


Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ~Juvenal