Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. |
Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely. |
Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" "Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" "Wasn't there any change?" |
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. |
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. |
God created man, but I could do better. |
Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed. |
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. |
Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in. |
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. |
Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." |
Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." |
Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." |
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. |
Housework can kill you if done right |