quotes on family bonds

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink? ~Author Unknown



Tears are the silent language of grief. ~Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary



Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. ~Harold Lowman



To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie



Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. ~George Bernard Shaw



It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. ~Author Unknown



Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ~Malcolm Forbes



The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864



In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, 1799



Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ~James Hastings



We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. ~Peter Drucker



Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner. ~Gary Smith



Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ~John Ed Pearce



If you come to a fork in the road, take it. ~Yogi Berra



You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard



No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ~W.B. Yeats



Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891



What a sink of madness is man's mind! ~"The Mission," Chapter 8