quotes for siblings

The first sip of tea is the always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion. ~Terri Guillemets



A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock



The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883



I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. ~Honore de Balzac, letter to Evelina Hanska, June 1836



Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... It's perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze. ~Raymond Chandler, 1950



With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti



Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack



Hitch your wagon to a star. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks, attributed



In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between. ~Lemony Snicket



Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~Marcel Proust



Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. ~Steve Prefontaine



You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author Unknown



It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown



So what good are all these fruitless discussions; for in the eternal battle of the sexes, we are always conquered - and we can do nothing about it - and none of us as yet, be he misogynist or feminist, has found a more perfect instrument of pleasure, or any other means of reproduction, than woman. ~"The Manuscript"



To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ~Max Beerbohm



Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri



Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. ~Bertrand Russell



Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets