Inspirational Quotes

If your heart is closed, then you will find behind that door nothing to light your way. But if your heart is open, you will find behind that door people who, like you, are searching, and you will find the right door together with them. None of us can save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and the only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

– Dean Koontz, One Doorway From Heaven

Erma Bombeck Quotes

Erma Bombeck Quotes

Spend at least one Mother’s Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.
– Erma Bombeck

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
– Erma Bombeck

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It’s the only thing “real” men do that doesn’t seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it’s on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.
– Erma Bombeck

I don’t know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.
– Erma Bombeck

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
– Erma Bombeck

Quote Of The Day

Quotes – Famous Quotes

Quotes – Famous Quotes

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
 – John Selden

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
 – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.
 – Amanda Cross

Books

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
 – John Selden

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.
 – Mary Pettibone Poole

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
 – Amos Bronson Alcott

Books

I can not live with out books.
 – Thomas Jefferson

Quotes – Famous Quotes

Quotes – Famous Quotes

My favorite quotation from Shantideva’s book is: ‘As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world.’
 – Dalai Lama

Quotations

Quotes – Famous Quotes

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external
 – Louise Imogen Guiney
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