Famous Quotes

Quotes on the subject of HOPE

Hope is grief’s best music.  ~Author Unknown

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.  ~Baruch Spinoza

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.  ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you’re slamming the door in the face of God.  ~Charles L. Allen

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.  ~George Weinberg

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.  ~Tertullian

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.  ~Lin Yutang

Hope is the poor man’s bread.  ~Gary Herbert

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Mark Twain
New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Judith Crist
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.

Anonymous
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
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Dog Quotes

“First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you’re mad, and that’s most of the time when you’re training dogs.” - Lou Schultz, trainer of Alaskan Huskies

“He’s fair. He treats us all the same-like dogs.” - Henry Jordan, Green Bay Packers right tackle On Vince Lombardi, recalled on Lombardi’s death 3 Sep 70

“Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.” - Melvin Maddocks, “Baseball-The Difference between Night and Day” Christian Science Monitor 3 Apr 85

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.  ~Ben Williams
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.  ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.  ~Mabel Louise Robinson

Dogs are miracles with paws.  ~Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.  ~Holbrook Jackson

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.  ~Author Unknown

Dogs’ lives are too short.  Their only fault, really.  ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.  ~Edith Wharton

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.  Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.  ~George Eliot

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.  For me they are the role model for being alive.  ~Gilda Radner

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better.  They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. 

Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.  ~George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.  ~Agnes Repplier

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.  ~Author Unknown

Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.  ~Franklin P. Jones

I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands.  When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat.  For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.  ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!  ~David Starr Jordan

Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.  ~Corey Ford

If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.  ~Phil Pastoret

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.  ~Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs

The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can’t afford to keep a yes-man.  ~Robertson Davies

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.  ~Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.  ~Author Unknown

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.  ~Andy Rooney

A dog is not “almost human” and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.  ~John Holmes

If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.  ~Will Rogers

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.  ~Mme. de Staël

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you?  But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.  ~Steve Bluestone

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.  ~Aldous Huxley

They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.  ~Jerome K. Jerome

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in?  I think that is how dogs spend their lives.  ~Sue Murphy

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.  ~Roger Caras

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.  ~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.  ~Ambrose Bierce

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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
O. Henry

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
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Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  ~Author Unknown

The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.  ~Mad Magazine

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  ~Author Unknown

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Funny sports quotes
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital.
Brad Park.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
Doug Larson.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee Trevino

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield

On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz

Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.
Jim Murray, on Sandy Koufax

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
Casey Stengel

Give me the fresh air, a beautiful partner, and a nice round of golf… and you can keep the fresh air and the round of golf.
Jack Benny

Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky.

We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. I just can’t figure out where else to play!
Pat Williams

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn’t even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
Roger Clemens, on Bo Jackson

The sun doesn’t shine on the same dog’s butt every day but we sure didn’t expect a total eclipse.
Steve Sloan

Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.
Metro Radio, College Football

They always try to play with our minds. But that won’t work with our club. We’ve got 20 guys without brains.
Bobby Clarke

Some famous quotes about marriage.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each
other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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We learned how to love each other by loving together
good things wholly outside each other.
Donald Hall
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Marriage isn’t supposed to make you happy -
it’s supposed to make you married.
Frank Pittman
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Marriage isn’t supposed to make you happy - and satisfied.
It’s your job to make your marriage happy - and satisfying.
Same goes for sex. It isn’t supposed to make you passionate and “hot”.
It’s up to you to make it passionate and “hot” - and intimate.
Diane Sollee, smartmarriages.com
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The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process.
It is an achievement.
David and Vera Mace
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths.
No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they
have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
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A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Ruth Bell Graham
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness
Kahlil Gibran
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The challenge is to help couples turn “I Do” into “We Can.”
Scott Stanley, prepinc.com
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If you didn’t want to be improved, you shouldn’t have gotten married.
Nancy (Mrs Scott) Stanley
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It’s true what they say – all the good men are married. But it’s marriage that makes them good.
Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife
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Be on the lookout for strain in each other, and with compassion and
understanding, lend a helping hand and a mature heart. Helping each other
manage emotional strain can yield creative alternatives and build a new
foundation for heart-based communication and hope.
Doc Childre
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They haven’t found Mr. Right. Maybe there’s just a Mr. OK or Mr. Pretty Good.
Linda Waite, coauthor, The Case for Marriage
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And, on the case for finding Mr or Ms right, the case for pacing and a 2-year
courtship:
There was a study about children, marshmallows and delayed
gratification. Researchers found that children who can delay
gratification by saving marshmallows until a later time turn out to be
happier and better adjusted later in life. We feel better when we are
in control of our desires and, particularly, our behaviors.

The temptation is to have it NOW. One man wrote to me and said:
I have learned that everything in life is instant gratification. I
just don’t know the instant it will happen. So I just do what is
in front of me to do, be patient, and wait for that instant.
Steve Goodier’s Life Support Blog
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three
things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya Angelou
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In marriage, as in all things, the perfect can be the enemy of the good.
unknown
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Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that
most of us will ever do.
Maggie Gallagher, coauthor, The Case for Marriage
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Both men and women live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives
when they are married. Unmarried co-habitation doesn’t cut it. Cohabitation
does not bring the benefits - in physical health, wealth, and emotional wellbeing
- that marriage does. And, married people have both more and better sex
than do their unmarried counterparts.
Linda Waite, The Case for Marriage
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Divorce causes a decrease in wealth that is larger than just splitting a
couple’s assets in half. By the same token, married people see an increase in
wealth that is more than just adding the assets of two single people.
On the other hand, divorce can devastate your wealth. Divorce drops a
person’s wealth by an average of 77%. Contrary to popular belief,
the research shows that the wealth of divorced women wasn’t significantly
worse than that of divorced men, in terms of real money. If you really
want to increase your wealth, get married and stay married.
Jay Zagorsky, Ohio State, Journal of Sociology, Jan 2006
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner,
it feels limitless, not limited.
Gloria Steinem, 2000, upon marrying for the first time at age 66
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The sweetest love I ever had/I left aside
Because I did not want to be/ any man’s bride . . .
Control your mind my girl/ and give your heart to one
For if you love all men/ you’ll surely be left with none
Eve Cassidy, Tall Trees in Georga on having chosen independence over love
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Famous Quotes about music
Bonnie Raitt
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Simon Rattle
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.

Kevin Richardson
It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That’s how we got “Backstreet.” We put “Boys” on it, because no matter how old we get, we’ll always be boys.

Robbie Robertson
Music should never be harmless.

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.

Johann G. Seume
Music is the key to the female heart.

William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?

John Philip Sousa
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

George Steiner
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Igor Stravinsky
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

George Szell
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Jeffrey Tate
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Frank Zappa
Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.

James Taylor
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Paul Whiteman
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Oscar Wilde
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Ron Wood
There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve got it.

Yoko Ono
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Frank Zappa
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), [Lord Byron] English romantic poet
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Truman Capote (1924-84), American novelist, short-story writer, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote (1924-84), American novelist, short-story writer, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Jim Davis (b. 1945), cartoonist
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Agnes de Mile (1905-93)
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.

Maurice Druon, From the Memoirs of Zeus
Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.
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I am fond of children - except boys.  ~Lewis Carroll

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad.  ~Dena Groquet

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  ~Joe Houldsworth

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.  ~Frank A. Clark

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. Howe

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.  ~Joan Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they’ll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it:  little men already.  ~Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff

Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.  ~Author Unknown

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she’s taking a nap.  ~Author Unknown

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.  ~Robert Benchley

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.  ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.  ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Little girls are cute and small only to adults.  To one another they are not cute.  They are life-sized.  ~Margaret Atwood

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt

What is a home without children?  Quiet.  ~Henny Youngman

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.  ~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese

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