Janice's Favorite Quotes

True love enobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for loves sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals

When a group of professional asked a group of 4 to 8 year olds "What does love mean?" They got some pretty profound answers - here are my favorites.....

When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got srthritis too.
Rebecca age 8

When someone loved you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in thier mouth.
Billy age 4

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other
Karl age 5

Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your Frence fries without making them give you any of thiers
Chrissy age 6

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired
Terri age 4

Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss
Emily age 8

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen
Bobby age 7

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate
Nikka age 6

Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday
Nielle age 7

Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well
Tommy age 6

During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.
Cindy age 8

My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.
Clare age 6

Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken
Elaine age 5

Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford
Chris age 7

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day
Mary Ann age 4

When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you
Karen age 7

Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross
Mark age 6

You really shouldn't say I love you unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget
Jessica age 8

And the best one is a four year old whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman'e yard, climbed onto his lap and just sat there.
When his mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, Nothing, I just helped him cry.

May all your days be filled with the gift of true and abiding love!

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret love outlives them all

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words of Wisdom collected by Larry Moses

Not everyone who agrees with you is your friend; not everyone who disagrees with youis your enemy.

No job pays enough to make it worthwhile to compromise your pinciples

When measuring your success in life, accumulation of money is a porr way to keep score

No matter what you are looking for, you will not find it until you ask your wife where it is

When showing your new car to a friend, he will always tell you he could have goten you a better deal

When you get directions to a specific place and someone tells you; you can't miss it, you will

No matter what your job, you really always work for yourself

Everyone is fighting a tough battle to get through life

When someone is doinng something unpleasant to you and says it is for your own good, this is probably not true

Everyone thinks everyone else's job is easy and they are overpaid to do it

He who dies with the most money still dies!

No one on thier death bed ever said, "Darn I wish I had worked more weekends."

When someone stops while you ae changing a tire at the side of the road the first question they will ask is, Did you have a flat?

When someone starts a sentence with "to tell the truth" he probably isn't

Never refuse to shake hands with a working man because his hands are dirty, he may be the only one to whom a handshake means anything

Only God is more important than family

When your dad says, This is going to hurt me more than you, it will not

Marry your best friend and life will be a whole lot better

The smartest people I know are not the best educated people I know, but I still believe the more education you have, the better off you are

The older generation always believes they are smarter and mor moral than the younger generation, but that is not neccessarily true

If you have to argue with a woman, choose one you don't like because you will not win and she will never forget or forgive

Most people who champion a cause that requires a sacrifice seldom make the sacrifice themselves

While you are loafing, someone is practicing and when you meet him head to head, he will win

The tyranny of the majority is just as bad as the tyranny of the minority or a single dictator

Committees are useless and are places where good ideas go to die

Two heads are not better than one if both heads are sitting on fools

The majority is not always right, but for the most part the majority should have the final say in how the country is run

Ignorance multiplied by thirty is still ignorance

Old people are not necessarily smarter than young people, but young people should treat them as though they are

Everyone has a right to be angry but no one has a right to be mean

Man does not seek freedom, he seeks comfort. That is the only logical way to explain the American citizen's failure to respond to the loss of thier constitutional rights over the last two decades

Until you can understand what is, what if can never happen; but you should still wonder what if

A strong belief in a religious or political creed is not evil, but the attempt to force those beliefs on other is

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you the best they can

The best way to get the phone to ring is sit down to dinner; the second best way is to rent a movie and sit down to watch it. To be sure the phone rings, sit down to watch a movie while eating dinner.

If the anniversary gift is the most important part of the celebration, there is something unherently wrong with the marriage

Doctors bury thier mistakes, lawyers send thier mistakes to prison, and teacher's mistakes end up in the leislature running the country

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much