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Marriage Quotes.

Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. -William O. Douglas. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -Voltaire. Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. -Helen Rowland. What makes a marriage last is for a man and a woman to continue to have things to argue about. -Rex Stout. I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. -George Washington. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. -Joseph Addison.

Boss Quotes.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.  -Theodore Roosevelt. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.  -Robert Frost. The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. -Anonymous. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. -John Gotti. Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems. -Donald Rumsfeld. There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. -Sam Walton. To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. -Doris Lilly. We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done. I thought my Boss was a bastard, and q

Procrastination Quotes

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. -Jerry West (LA Lakers). Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. -Kim Lyons. Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. -Irene Kassorla. Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -Robert Schuller. Anyone can do any amount of work providing it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. -Robert Benchley. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today. -Wayne Dyer. Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow ! -Don Herold. I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. . -Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat,

Laziness

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -Charlie McCarthy. Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. -Walter Chrysler. People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.  -Bob Hope. Anybody can exercise... But this kind of lethargy takes real discipline. -Garfield. Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard. Laziness is the mother of efficiency. -Marian Propp. It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -Ronald Reagan. Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. -Will Rogers. I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. -Agatha Christie. A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion. -Unknow

Heaven

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. -Rabindranath Tagore. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. -William Shakespeare. Heaven never helps the man who will not act. -Sophocles. Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. -Seneca. In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. -Lord Byron. Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. -Henry Ward Beecher. Heaven means to be one with God. -Confucius. Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there. -Chinese Proverb. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. -Fra Giovanni. Heaven .... the treasury of everlasting life. -William Shakespeare. Thinking about Heaven can inspire and encourage us to be more heavenly-minded and realize that Heaven is a real place where we're really going to live. -David Brandt Berg. Heaven is a beauti

Success.

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value. -Albert Einstein. Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. -Henry Drummond. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. -Euripides. Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. -Theodore T. Hunger. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -Robert Collier. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. -Arthur Golden. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt. It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. -Vince Lombardi. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. -George Eliot. The tragedy in life doesn't lie in no