SWEET LOVE QUOTES AND SAYINGS Live through feeling and you will live through love.

For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth. -- Matt Zotti The way to find out if you love someone or not, is by talking to them. The more you talk to them the more you either hate them or love them. -- Brad Breitenstein Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. -- Source Unknown It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. -- Source Unknown Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. -- David Grayson Love is the compass of life. -- Peckeroy A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old. -- Source Unknown At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. -- Satchel Paige Love waits for one thing, the right moment. -- Anna

Friendship Quotes and Sayings

A friend is someone who is there for you when hed rather be somewhere else. Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Friends are Gods way of taking care of us. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. A road to a friends house is never long. Ive always said that in politics, your enemies cant hurt you, but your friends will kill you. Count your age with friends but not with years. A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. When you die, if youve got five real friends, then youve had a great life. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side. Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still like you. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise. Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life. To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy. Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart. Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you. Your friends are what will matter in the end.

Quotations about Teenagers

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ~Quentin Crisp Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ~Laurence J. Peter Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death," Afterthoughts, 1931 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~Al Bernstein When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. ~Larry Lujack The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~Erma Bombeck Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. ~Unknown high school principal

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ~Doug Larson Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. ~William Galvin The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. ~Raymond Duncan When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. ~Fran Lebowitz The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. ~Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ~Judith Martin There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure. ~Dan Bennett Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ~Judith Martin Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~Bob Phillips Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ~Arnold H. Glasow There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. ~Art Buchwald It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are. ~Author Unknown The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew. ~Author Unknown A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food. ~Henny Youngman There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. ~Erma Bombeck You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ~John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962 A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. ~Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown How strange that the young should always think the world is against them when in fact that is the only time it is for them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. ~Jessamyn West It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ~Edgar W. Howe Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988 The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away - it's just like a really long, bad cold. ~Dawn Ruelas Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? ~Thomas Szasz I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ~Will Rogers Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. ~Faye Moskowitz Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life - for the parents. Next to trying to pick his bride, it's the best way to learn that your authority, if not entirely gone, is slipping fast. ~Sally and James Reston

Quotations about Children

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983 Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~Pearl S. Buck

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762 In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~Thomas Szasz Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~Franklin P. Jones Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary I am fond of children - except boys. ~Lewis Carroll Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad. ~Dena Groquet There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. ~Author Unknown

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. ~Robert Benchley The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985 Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. ~Franois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. ~Angela Schwindt What is a home without children? Quiet. ~Henny Youngman It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. ~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945 Do your kids a favor - don't have any. ~Robert Orben Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

Our genes make us immortal. ~The Secret of Life, PBS Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. ~Red Skelton The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~Frank A. Clark If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. ~Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957 Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. ~Jean de La Bruyre, Les Caractres, 1688 There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff

Quotations about Education

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed. An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~Martin H. Fischer Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ~Tallulah Bankhead A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ~R. Baker What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890 Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~G.K. Chesterton

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abb Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928 Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ~Martin H. Fischer With just enough learning to misquote. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An "education" that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must "teach" by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny. ~Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, September 1982 The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. ~Richard Yates I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ~Al McGuire

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~Brander Matthews If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ~Heinrich Heine You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." ~Peter Brodie The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883 Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H. Fischer It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~George Santayana The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963 You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ~Will Rogers My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." ~Thomas L. Friedman All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Ariel and Will Durant

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail