miss you quotes and sayings

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ~Henry David Thoreau



Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus. ~Ambrose Bierce



Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. ~Victor Hugo



I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. ~Woodrow Wilson



I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them. ~Anthony Clark



We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965



Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ~Roman Polanski



The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger



Harry found the tea... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. ~J.K. Rowling



It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much



Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck



The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. ~Steve Forbes



Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. ~M.G. Sriram



Keep the paint up, and the rubber down! ~Author Unknown



Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ~Margaret Willour



Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~Aldous Huxley



If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry



Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet



Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here. ~Author unknown, attributed to both Dan and Barbara Hladio and Thomas Boyadjis, Sr.



I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~Stephen Roberts