© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008

I consider myself a novice to marriage when compared to my parents and in-laws (48 and 50 years respectively), Frank and I are newbie’s going on 10-years, but as I as reminisce back to our wedding, and remember that this is prime wedding season, almost every day is somebody’s anniversary, so to all my lovebirds, and those still looking for love, this is for you!


A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
~ Author Unknown

Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
~ From the movie Moulin Rouge

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
~ Leo Tolstoy

And here is my heart which beats only for you.
~ Paul Verlaine

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet…
~ Plato

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu

Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.
~ Author Unknown

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
~ Robert Burns

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
~ Author Unknown

Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
~ Oscar Hammerstein

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong

Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
~ Anonymous

Don’t hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.
~ Allison Mosher

Falling in love with someone isn’t always going to be easy… Anger… tears… laughter.. It’s when you want to be together despite it all. That’s when you truly love another. I’m sure of it.
~ Author Unknown

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.
~ Leland Thomas

Goodnight! Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.
~ William Shakespeare

I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
~ Goethe

I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can’t even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
~ Sarah Mimnaugh

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
~ Julia Roberts

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ Alice Walker

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn’t be the same. Please don’t ever go away. And if you go, then don’t forget to take me with you.
~ Basia

I love her and
that’s the beginning of everything.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
~ Author Unknown

I think we dream so we don’t have to be away from one another. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we’ll always be together.
~ Hobbes

I’m not supposed to love you, I’m not supposed to care, I’m not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I’m not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do…I’m sorry I can’t help myself, I’m in love with you.
~ Author Unknown

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
~ Author Unknown

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
~ Author Unknown

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
~ Anonymous

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
~ Maya Angelou

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~ Mother Teresa

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany

In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.
~ French proverb

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~ Hans Nouwens

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~ Oscar Wilde

Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.
~ Author Unknown

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
~Kahlil Gibran

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
~ William Shakespeare

Love demands all and has a right to it.
~ Beethoven

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,…made new.
~ Le Guin

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get~only with what you are expecting to give~which is everything.
~ Katharine Hepburn

Love is a fan club with only two fans.
~ Anonymous

Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.
~ Lamar Cole

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
~ Author Unknown

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is a never ending feeling.
~ Adeil Prince

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.
~ J. Ghetto

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
~ Eurpides

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~ Helen Keller

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.
~ Kamila

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
~ Henry Beyle Stendahl

Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its coming back.
~ Nigerian Proverb

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.
~ Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
~ Kay Knudsen

Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
~ Will Moss

Love is not something you look for,
Love is something you become.
~ Langley

Love is smiling on the inside and out.
~ Jennifer Williams

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~ Robert A Heinlein

Love is the blueprint for happiness.
~ Lamar Cole

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
~ Erich Fromm

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay. Love isn’t love until you give it away.
~ Michael W.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
~ Barbara Johnson

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
~ Author Unknown

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
~ Gretchen Kemp

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ Saint Augustine

So, fall asleep love, loved by me….for I know love, I am loved by thee.
~ Robert Browning

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~ Thomas Merton

The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~ J. Krishnamurti

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller

The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you.
~ Author Unknown

The world is filled with reasons why I love you.
~ Author Unknown

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
~ Author Unknown

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
~ Samuel Butler

True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.
~ Author Unknown

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
~ Tom Robbins

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~ Helen Keller

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated.
~ Leo Buscaglia

When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.
~ Author Unknown

You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
~ Keith Sweat

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
~ Author Unknown

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
~ Barbara De Angelis

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The fires in California got me thinking about those brave men and women and the risks the unimaginable risks they go through to protect life and property; I know because for a year I volunteered with my local fire department, and thinking of volunteering again.

To these brave heroes, thank you.



Firefighters save hearts and homes.
~Author Unknown

Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~Susan Diane Murphree

Firefighters are hot stuff!
~Author Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~Ambrose Redmoon

Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.
~Author Unknown

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
~Albert Schweitzer

You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you. ~Author Unknown

You might be a firefighter if you’ve ever smoked and there wasn’t a cigarette in sight. ~Author Unknown

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
~Larry Brown

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart.
~Proverb

Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick

Whatever the American’s are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an “institution.” Thus the memory of George Washington… is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution…; “Sweet potatoes” are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; …squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850

The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.
~Gregory Widen, Backdraft

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
~Seth Parker

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
~William Shakespeare

When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. ~Edward F. Croker

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
~Tom Brokaw

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
~Author Unknown

Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office.
~Author Unknown

I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
~James Allen

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
~William Feather

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
~Kurt Vonnegut

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
~John Godfrey Saxe

But sound aloud the praises, and give the victor-crown
To our noble-hearted Firemen, who fear not danger’s frown.
~Frederic G.W. Fenn, “Ode to our Firemen,” 1878

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~Maya Angelou

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
~Bible, John 15:13

Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~Author Unknown

When fire is cried and danger is neigh,
“God and the firemen” is the people’s cry;
But when ’tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.
~Author unknown, from The Fireman’s Journal, 18 Oct 1879

All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.
~Author Unknown

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
~George Canning

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America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
~Adlai Stevenson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
~Daniel Webster

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~Robert J. McCracken

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~Hamilton Fish

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
~Author Unknown

I love my freedom. I love my America.
~Jessi Lane Adams

Without freedom, no one really has a name.
~Milton Acorda

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
~Benjamin Franklin

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
~J. Horace McFarland

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~Simone de Beauvoir

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
~James G. Blaine

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~Thomas Macaulay

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
~John Dickinson

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
~William Faulkner

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
~Thomas Jefferson

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.” ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
~Paul Sweeney

From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
~Samuel F. Smith, “America”

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
~Hubert H. Humphrey

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.
~Sallust

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.
~Author Unknown

Freedom is not enough.
~Lyndon B. Johnson

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

Freedom is never free.
~Author Unknown

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
~William J. Clinton
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© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008

Today is also bring your pet to work day!

To those celebrating both, Happy pet day of summer work!





A life without love is like a year without summer.
– Swedish Proverb

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
– James Dent

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
– St. Francis of Assisi

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
– Russel Baker

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
– Joseph Wood Krutch

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
– William Law

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
– Kahlil Gibran

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
– Erma Bombeck

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
– Rupert Brooke

Celebrate Summer - Sun drenched days and starlit nights…
– Gooseberry Patch

Colored scents that fill the air as drowsy insects hum around in the meadow is the place of secret magic where nature alone renews itself.
– Kate Bergquist

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
– Sam Keen

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?
– Bev Adams

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
– Sydney Smith

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
– Robert Bridges

I live on an island and listen to jazz all day long. The sun is always shining, but you can still see the stars. The breeze sings astonishingly like Ella and the wind rumbles in a Louis way. My friends and I dance under magic skies.
– Author Unknown

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
– John Vance Cheney

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
– L. M. Montgomery

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
– Bern Williams

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
– Aldo Leopold

In summer, the song sings itself.
– William Carlos Williams

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
– John Cheever

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
– Hal Borland

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
– Thomas Browne

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
– Author Unknown

No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
– Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode

Oh, bring again my heart’s content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
– William Allingham

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
– Barry Cornwall

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
– John Lubbock

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
– Warren Buffett

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
– Henry James

Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and “green-robed senators of mighty woods” are clothed in their most elegant array.
– Author Unknown

Summer is delicious. [rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
– John Ruskin

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
– Ada Louise Huxtable

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
– Francis Thompson

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
– James Russell Lowell

The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog - a summer night’s serenade.
– Michael P. Garofalo

The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.
– Francis Thompson

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
– Wallace Stevens

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
– Celia Thaxter

To believe in life is to believe there will always be someone who will water the geraniums.
– Flavia

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
– Emily Dickinson

We are much more likely to experience a sense of plenty when we are relaxed.
– SARK

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
– Jane Austen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
– Gertrude Jekyll

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
– James Russell Lowell

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That’s because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
– Roy Blount Jr.

Who has not dreamed a world of bliss on a bright, sunny noon like this?
– William Howitt

Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.
– Andrea Willis

You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.– Author Unknown

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Husband and dog missing … 25 cents reward for dog

Wife and dog missing … 25 cents reward for dog

If you want the best seat in the house … move the dog

Life is just one table scrap after another

My dog’s not spoiled … I’m just well trained !

Recycle bones here

A boy’s best friend is his dog

A man’s best friend is his dog

A house is not a home without a dog

Dogs are really people with short legs in fur coats

Dogs are people too

Be tuff ! The “dog days” of summer can be wuff !

Chasing your tail gets you nowhere … ‘cept back to where you started

Family and friends welcome. Fleas are not.

Friends Fur-ever

When please doesn’t work … Beg !

Wipe your paws

Wipe your paws or else

Beware of attack puppy

I love dogs

A spoiled rotten dog lives here

Spoiled rotten dogs live here

“In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog.”

“Maybe you’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places. A dog will treat you better than anyone you’ll meet at happy hour. Trust me. I’ve been to happy hour.”

” … work can wait another 30 minutes. There are more important things to do. Like throwing sticks.”

“A dog will quickly turn you into a fool, but who cares? Better your dog than your boss. I’m a fool for my dog and proud of it.”

“Dogs are better than children. Even my friends with children say that. As a dog friend of mine likes to say, children are for people who can’t have dogs.”

“A barking dog never bites.”

“Barking up the wrong tree.”

“Dog in a manger.”

“Let sleeping dogs lie.”

“Tail wagging the dog.”

“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”

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Dad’s Aloysius, Frank and Harry, Happy Father’s Day!





A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
~ Knights of Pythagoras

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
~ Author Unknown

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~Author Unknown

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
~Albert Camus





To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
~ Simone De Beauvoir

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don’t disappoint him.
~ Alan Beck

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
~ Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
~ Julie Benz

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night.
~Margaret Atwood

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
~Harmon Killebrew

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
~Michael Foot

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