- 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

-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

-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

- 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

-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

-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

-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

-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

-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

-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