Mark Twain Quotes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life – time, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain
Laughter Quotes
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-E.E. Cummings
Laughter is an instant vacation.
-Milton Berle
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
-Woody Allen
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
-Author Unknown
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb
A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.
-Raymond Hitchcock
Sibling Quotes
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
-Susan Scarf Merrell
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
-Hesiod
A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.
-Marian Sandmaier
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
-Clara Ortega
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way.
-Pamela Dugdale
You can kid the world. But not your sister.
-Charlotte Gray
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
-Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!
-Author Unknown
Funny Birthday Quotes
We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
- Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
-John Glenn
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
- Unknown
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
-Herbert Asquith
May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
-Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
-Larry Lorenzoni
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
-Unknown
Best Friend Quotes
Friends are the people God gave us to keep us company… Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.
-Unknown
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
-Unknown
A true friend is someone who knows there’s something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face.
-Unknown
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
-Arnold H. Glasgow
Quotes about Women
I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
-Bella Abzug
The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart.
- Unknown
I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.
-Stanley Baldwin
The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
-Robert Graves
Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
-Marcel Achard
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
-Bill Maher
Listening Quotes
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
-Phillip Stanhope
The ear of the leader must ring with the voice of the people.
-Woodrow Wilson
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
-Dick Cavet
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
-Robert Greenleaf
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
-Turkish proverb
Valentine Quotes
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
-Peter Ustinov
Don’t talk to me about Valentine’s Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!
-Joan Rivers
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Robert Frost
Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
-Nicholas Sparks
I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.
-Unknown
Personality Quotes
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
-Fran Lebowitz
Show me an actress who isn’t a personality
and I’ll show you a woman who isn’t a star.
-Kathryn Hepburn
The ’self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
-Maxwell Maltz
To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust.
-George Ross
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn`t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Dog Quotes
It’s no coincidence that man’s best friend cannot talk.
-Anonymous
Talking to dogs is one of the few acts of faith still made nowadays.
-Paul Jennings
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
- Stanley Coren, dog psychologist
Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.
- Gene Hill
The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.
- Gloria Allred
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
