wedding quotes for cards

Men of lean habit of body are commonly a long time healthy, having good appetites and strong stomachs for digestion. ~Tobias Venner



With all its ups and downs, skipping is just one more metaphor for life. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. ~Henry S. Haskins



This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210



When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ~Norm Crosby



But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. ~Virginia Woolf



I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott



Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Malade Imaginaire



Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. ~Bernard M. Baruch



Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson



A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. ~Clare Whiting



Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson



We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams



The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur



I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990



Chiasmus: figure of speech in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; the two clauses display inverted parallelism. The elements of a simple chiasmus are often labelled in the form A B B A, where the letters correspond to grammar, words, or meaning. In modern day, chiasmus is often used synonymously with antimetabole but in the classical sense of the word, chiasmus does not repeat the same words. Example: "By day the frolic, and the dance by night." ~Samuel Johnson



When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb



Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. ~Saint Thomas Aquinas