quotes for lost loved ones

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke


If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ~Mrs. Sarah S.B. Yule credits this quotation to Ralph Waldo Emerson in her Borrowings, 1889


The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. ~Author Unknown


America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. ~Aurora Raigne


Opportunity is a bird that never perches. ~Claude McDonald


The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920


Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck. ~Author Unknown


Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen


The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox


Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. ~Anso Coetzer


A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde


Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. ~Sheila Rowbotham


That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. ~Bertran de Born


Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash


Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell


Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. ~Ambrose Bierce


Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe. ~Gabriela Mistral, Desolacion


You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Earl Hickey


We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall


You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ~Eleanor Roosevelt