What we really love about being home...

“Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.”   -Franklin P. Jones




“Home is where you can scratch where it itches”    -unknown




"I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.”   -Nancy Reagan




"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."     -Andy Warhol

I'm workin' on it!

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
-Gustave Flaubert


"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
-Theodore Roosevelt


"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam Ewing


"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
-Anne Frank

...couples resemble a pair of scissors :)

"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."    -Heraclitus


"Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together."
-Jacqueline Bisset


"They shared the chore of living as most couples do- she did most of the work and he appreciated it."   -Paula Gosling




"Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets inbetween them."   -Sydney Smith

via Ashley from Stumbleupon (I think)

This picture is for Ashley :)

anticipation is making me wait

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
-Gloria Swanson


"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
-Samuel Johnson




“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”   
-Seneca




“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”  
-Seneca

rules of a gentleman

Rules of a Gentleman

fear of...

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”  Sven Goran Eriksson 




“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”  -William Saroyan




“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment”   -Unknown




“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”   -Henry Ford