Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Yesterday is a cancelled checked and tomorrow is a promissory note and today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely and earnestly...and the most important is you love yourself and your family (including friends) with the guidance of GOD.And don't forget to take time and to smile much

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Your fortune stateth: You should go home.

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

Home is where the heart is.

Familiarity breeds attempt

Familiarity breeds attempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

A home without books is a body without soul.

That made Homey very unhappy.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Familiarity breeds contempt: and children.

Wink at a homely girl, it costs you so little & does her so much good.

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

He who comes first, eats first. Familiar as First come first served.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Cabbage, n.: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Girl 1: "You know how everyone says they're middle class. I'm not middle class. My family's rich.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.