rip quotes for family

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from the Underground," 1864



You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. ~Frederick Douglass



I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton



Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November



There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"



That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. ~John Burroughs, Journal



A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ~Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Atheism, 1625



Choices are the hinges of destiny. ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras



Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. ~Lee Venden



When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. ~Rachel Houston



The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~Mark Twain



Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time. ~Karen Brown



Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian



How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ~Cato the Elder



W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like "epixoriambikos." Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ~Ambrose Bierce



The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. ~George Sheehan



U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990