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Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation ...

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

You're all you've got.

People, like water, seek their own level.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

Guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

Marriage is not a reform school.

Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

Are you better off with him or without him?

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Don't indulge in gossip ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Grown-up people can wait.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.