“Successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
German Greer

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
Homer

“The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.”
Polish Proverb

“Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.”
Anonymous

“When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.”
Anonymous

“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.”
Walker Percy

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
Woody Allen

“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
Yogi Berra

“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman

“I do not know what ‘moss’ stands for in the proverb, but if it stood for useful knowledge… I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.”
Ernest Shakleton

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
George Santayana

“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.”
Melanie Clark

“Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.”
Cher

“I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands.”
Dudley Moore

“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
Fulton J. Sheen

“No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.”
Joyce Brothers

“The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.”
Unknown

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”
Robert Goheen

“Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.”
Gary Bolding

“Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.”
Garry Trudeau

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.”
Robert Orben

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.”
Truman Capote

“My friends, there are no friends.”
Coco Chanel

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. ~Les Brown

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

# Youth comes but once in a lifetime. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

# Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. - Rudyard Kipling

# Keep true to the dream of thy youth. - Friedrich Von Schiller

# It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. - Albert Schweitezer

# A man over nintey is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
funny birthday rhyme - birthday verse

“Hunger is the best sauce.”
- Proverb

“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
- Chinese Proverb

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
- Proverb

“A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.”
- George S. Patton (1885-1945), US Army General

“Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
- Proverb

“99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.”
- Unknown

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
- Jean Giraudoux

Shaw writes his plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.
- George Nathan on George Bernard Shaw

He is to acting what Liberace was to pumping iron.
- Rex Reed on Sylvester Stallone

What makes him think a middle aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?
- Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood’s bid to become mayor of Carmel

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tyre.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything

Sex can be like air, it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one.

When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don’t let her brush your hair.

A kisss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.