"Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. — Crowfoot

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." Author: Mother Teresa "The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. " Author: Friedrich Nietszche "Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

"Sometimes love is a moment, sometimes love is a lifetime. Sometimes a moment is a lifetime."

Those we hold most dear never truly leave us…they live on in the kindness they showed, the comfort they shared, and the love they brought into our lives Good motto to live by . . .

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO - what a ride!"

> GREAT QUOTES BY GREAT LADIES >

> > > Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened.

>>Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies

> The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. > -Helen Hayes (at 73)- >. > I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray >eyebrows. > -Janette Barber- > >Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. > -Lily Tomlin > >A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. > -Carrie Snow > > - > Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your >girlfriends. > -Laurie Kuslansky- > > My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting >my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. > -Erma Bombeck- > > Old age ain't no place for sissies. > -Bette Davis- >> > A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he >can't. > -Rhonda Hansome- > The phrase "working mother" ! is redundant. > -Jane Sellman > > > Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows. > -Jennifer Unlimited- > >>- > Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought >half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. > -Charlotte Whitton- > > > Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body >starts falling apart. > -Caryn Leschen >

> I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me >at once. > -Jennifer Unlimited- > > > If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a horrible >warning. > -Catherine- > > > When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years >before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME >slow! > -Kathy Buckley- > > > > I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not >dumb -- and I'm also not blonde. > -Dolly Parton- > >If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. > -Sue Grafton-

> > >> I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. > -Roseanne Barr-

> > When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade >a! nother country. > -Elayne Boosler- >> > Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. > -Maryon Pearson- > > > > In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything >done, ask a woman. > -Margaret Thatcher-

> > I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a >career. > -Gloria Steinem- > > I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his >house. > -Zsa Zsa Gabor > > > > Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. > -Eleanor Roosevelt- > > > Send this to five! bright women you know and make their day. > > Every woman I know is bright --so I am sending to several more.

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