quotes about parents love

Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. ~Horace



I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. ~James Thurber



Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ~Bill Gates



The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen



Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. ~Sam Abbel



Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. ~Tertullian



Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate



Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin



Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. ~Jan de Hartog, The Lamb's War



There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ~Fran Lebowitz



To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5



Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill



Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. ~Jeffrey Glassberg



Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. ~Giuseppe Mazzini



You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden



Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ~Martina Navratilova



Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave... ~Dita Von Teese



Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld