Sister oh sister… # 4

 

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else.

~Jean Kerr~

 

Don’t underestimate love at first sight, many of us might not pass a second inspection

~anonymous~

 

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on she needs good cash.

~Sophie Tucker~

 

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

~David Frost; Independent~

 

The family – that dear octopus form whose tentacles we never quite escape.

~Dodie Smith: Dear Octopus~

 

Are there any brothers who do not criticize a bit and make fun of the fiancée who is stealing a sister from them?

~Colette~

 

There’s no vocabulary for love within a family. Love that’s lived in but not looked at, love within the light of which all else is seen, the love within which all other love finds speech. This love is silent.

~T.S. Eliot~

 

From the little book of ‘A special Sister’.

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Sister oh sister… #3

 

Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

~Lamartine~

 

Reproof a parent’s province is; A sister’s discipline is this: By studied kindness to effect a little brother’s young respect.

~Mary Lamb~

 

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses but a girl on a sofa is easily won ofa.

~Dorothy parker~

 

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

~William Shakespeare ‘Hamlet’ ~

 

An archeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

~Agatha Christie~

 

You don’t know a woman until you’ve had a letter from her.

~Ada Leverson~

 

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to exolain nothing.

~Katherine Mansfield~

 

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

~Roseanne Barr, b. 1952~

 

From the little book of ‘A special Sister’.

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