happy valentines day mom quotes

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. ~Martin Luther



Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. ~Oscar Wilde



Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. ~Author Unknown



Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky



If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. ~John Cheever



I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever. ~W.E.H. Lecky



Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honore de Balzac



He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb



Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, Essays



And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. ~John 8:32



There's nothing wrong with me a little ice cream won't fix. ~Author Unknown



Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. ~Author Unknown



Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~Brendan Francis



Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Louis Dembitz Brandeis



Better than silence is? ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb



It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. ~D.H. Lawrence



The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966