quotes for grandma

I think I just ate my willpower. ~Author Unknown



Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind



A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit



Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815



Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~Stephen Leacock



Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal



From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ~Syrus



Better dead sure than sure dead. ~Author Unknown



Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970



I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown



Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown



The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder



Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett



At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund



A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals



It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb



The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. ~H.A. Overstreet



When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw