-Catherine Pulsifer

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

-Proverb

A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.

-Proverb

To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts.
We share private family jokes.
We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time.

-Clara Ortega
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

-Anna Quindlan

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

- Astrid Alauda

-Spanish Proverb

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

-George Santayana, The Life of Reason

We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

-Marquise de Sévigné

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

-Anthony Brandt

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.

-Author Unknown

-Proverb

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.

-Mildred B. Vermont

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

-Tenneva Jordan

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

-Peter De Vries

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

-Rajneesh

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

-Oprah Winfrey

-Unknown
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.”

-Thomas Merton
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

-Unknown
“He who does not live life to it’s fullest can never know the true meaning of life …”

-Unknown
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

-Albert Camus

-Unknown

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

-Henny Youngman

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

- Unknown

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

-Mae West

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

-Winston Churchill

Love is being stupid together.

-Paul Valery

-Christian Morgenstern

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

- John Ed Pearce

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

- Unknown

Home is a shelter from storms – all sorts of storms.

-William J. Bennett

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

-Unknown

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

-George Washington

-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