quotes about death of a father

Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. ~Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic



I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. ~Kyle, "Death," original airdate 17 September 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone



Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~Mark Twain



Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~Confucius



Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb



Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. ~Author Unknown



All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. ~Frederick Brooks, Jr.



One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin



When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~Peter Marshall



Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo



Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. ~Victor Hugo



Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die. ~Author Unknown



A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas � Kempis



Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles



It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert



Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859