Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Dickens

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.

Vince Lombardi

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Barack Obama

A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Charles Dickens

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Voltaire

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Jackie Chan

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

J. Paul Getty

The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Aristotle

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

What's the point in living if you're not really going to live? Time's limited - choose to enjoy yourself.

Karen E. Quinones Miller