In the morning, when you find yourself loathe to rise, have this thought at hand: “I am arising to a man’s work. Shall I be annoyed at having to set about the work for which I was born, and for which I was brought into the world? Was I designed for the purpose of lying among the blankets and keeping myself warm?”
— Marcus Aurelius
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“In the hive and the ant-hill we see fully realised the two things that some of us most dread for our own species — the dominance of the female and the dominance of the collective.”
— C.S. Lewis
My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jina and Jacey Jones.
— January Jones
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. — Hal Borland
“Always know exactly what you are going to say. Never know how you are going to say it.”
— Nigel Nicolson
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
— Stephen Hawking
“One’s only ambition in life should be to be happy. Nothing else matters”
— Amanda Holden
My mother taught me how to remain sane when faced with the implacable logic of small children: always give them choice, but controlled choice with inbuilt distraction. Not “would you like to eat your vegetables?” but “would you like to eat your vegetables from a green or a yellow plate?” Worked like a charm.
— Lisa Armstrong
“The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and advise them to do it.”
— Harry S Truman