“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” – Federico Fellini
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” – Harry S Truman
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.” – E. B. White
“Ice cream is happiness condensed.” – Jessi Lane Adams
“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.” – Amelia Earhart
“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.” – Francis Bacon
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – The Declaration of Independence
“Greeting cards reflect the social fabric. And this is an unusual aspect of society.” – Barbara Miller, Cultural Anthropologist
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.” — Aesop
“Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fatherhood and fathering is a very important stage in their development.” – David Gottesman
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” — Samuel Butler
“No human activity I know of takes more time than writing…. Of necessity the writer is unlike those of [her] friends who quit work at five.” — John Gardener
“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.”
— Sandra Day O’Connor
“Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones.” – Matt Groening,
The Simpsons
“Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.” — Epicurus
“Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.” — Lawrence Durrell
“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” – Julia Child
“Physical fitness can neither be achieved through wishful thinking nor outright purchase.” – Joseph Pilates
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin.
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver
“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but you still have to mow it.” – Proverb
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis
“Being frugal does not mean being cheap! It means being economical and avoiding waste.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Love is the one thing you hope for from the minute you’re born and remember until the day you die. To love and to be loved is the greatest reward that woman or man can have on this earth.” – Paraphrased from Abernathy in Guys and Dolls
“The old Romans having expelled physicians out of their commonwealth, did for many years maintain their health by the use of cabbages, taking them for every disease.” – 16th century historian
“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea…” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.” – Bernard Shaw
“Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.” – Lao Tzu
“…a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach