Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin

“The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me.” ~ Robert Brault

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” ~ Robert Quillen

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“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” ~ Dave Meurer

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." ~ John W. Whitehead

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be yours." ~ C.S. Lewis

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"I don’t know why they say you have a baby. The baby has you." ~ Gallagher

"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who say they sleep like babies usually don't have them." ~ Leo J. Burke

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"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them." ~ Rita Rudner

"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." ~ Erma Bombeck

"The phrase "working mother" is redundant." ~ Jane Sellman

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"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be." ~ Frank A. Clark

“Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” ~ Martin Mull

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.” ~ Clarence Budington Kelland

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"Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and bat you with experience." ~ Greg King

"If you steal from on author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research." ~ Wilson Mizner

"By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong." ~ Charles Wadsworth

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"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" ~ Milton Berle

"Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house." ~ Rod Stewart

"A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it." ~ Jerry Seinfeld.

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"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” ~ Colin R. Davis

“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” ~ Martha Stewart

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ~ Napoleon Hill

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"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." ~ Sir Henry Taylor

"Money is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity." ~ Dave Ramsey

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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." ~ Henry Miller

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." ~ Oscar Wilde

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"On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me." ~ Rodney Dangerfield

"If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween." ~ Doug Coupland


“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” ~ Ray Bradbury

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“I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.” ~ R.J. Palacio


"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." ~ H P Lovecraft


"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween." ~ Erma Bombeck


"Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many." ~ Robert Kirby


"Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn’t know what to do! I’d knock on people’s doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you." ~ Rita Rudner

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"Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night." ~ Steve Almond

"As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light..." ~ Nicholas Gordon

"There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch." ~ Robert Brault

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“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” ~ J.K. Rowling

"If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray." ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

"Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast." ~ Sara Coleridge