I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to wife Sophia, 5 December 1839
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? ~Author Unknown
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. ~Brian Tracy
We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us. ~Author Unknown
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ~Michel de Montaigne
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ~Thich Nat Hahn
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. ~Oliver Herford
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ~Barbara Walters
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. ~Phillips Brooks
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~R.E. Shay
Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ~Josh Billings
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. ~C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden
When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose? ~Author Unknown
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen... fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. ~Denis Norden (actually, it's a quote about cricket)
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966