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“I have too many swimsuits….said no woman ever!”
-Unknown-
“I didn’t want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.”
-Isabel Bishop-
“Waiting for her is as delightful as waiting for sunset.”
-Imran Shaikh-
“You’re only one workout away from a good mood.”
-Unknown-
“The best thing about being single is sleeping around. You can sleep all over that bed of yours. Left, right, middle, wherever.”
-Unknown-
“I love water; especially frozen into cubes and surrounded by vodka.”
-Unknown-
“The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood.”
– Albert F. Pratt –
“Life brings tears, smiles, and memories. The tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever.”
-Unknown-
“As 2023 approaches, I realize how lucky I am to count you as my friend. I am truly grateful all year long for your best wishes and patronage. My New Year’s resolution is to make more time to catch up with each of you next year, no matter how crazy life gets. Happy New Year!”
-Fortunes of War Militaria-
“According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.”
-Robert De Niro-
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
-Marie Curie-
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
-Thornton Wilder-
“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.”
-Clare Boothe Luce-
“Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards.”
-Marilyn Monroe-
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.”
-Victor Hugo-
“Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
-Mark Twain-
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt –
“After women, flowers are the most divine creations.”
-Christian Dior-
“I don’t want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.”
-Emme Rollins-
“Behind every hardworking man, is a hardworking woman who wakes his grown ass up in the morning!”
-Anonymous-
“A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.”
-Minna Antrim-
“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.”
-Robert Frost-
“Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes.”
-Charlotte Bronte-
“The right hair style can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.”
-Sophia Loren-
“If roses could talk, they would not boast of their beauty, because they know that they have always been beautiful.”
“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”
–Rita Rudner–
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
-Asian Proverb-
“I’ve told you that I like a well-read woman. Well-read women tend to know more about a wide range of topics. And you can never be bored with a woman who reads.”
–Chelsea M. Cameron–
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.”
– Albert Einstein–
“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
-Unknown-
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.”
Claude Monet
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
–Confucius–
“Best friends are people who make your problems their problems, just so you don’t have to go through them alone.”
“A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.”
Rachel Ray
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
Edgar Allan Poe
I always used to think: If a woman’s got pitch-black hair, she’s already halfway to being a beauty.
Wendell Corey
“Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”
– Anonymous –
“Any women who understand the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Winning a woman’s heart doesn’t make someone a man, learning to treasure that heart after it’s won is what makes someone a real man.”
Unknown
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The scent of a rose will always stay on the hand of the giver.”
Asian Proverb
“Men make houses, women make homes.”
English Proverb
“Fashion is like eating, you shouldn’t stick to the same menu.”
Kenzo Takada
“Not all girls are made of sugar & spice and everything nice. Some girls are made of sarcasm and wine and everything fine.”
Unknown author
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
Plato
“koi no yokan”
(the extraordinary sense upon first meeting someone, that you will one day fall in love.)
Japanese definition
“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
Lilith Saintcrow
“A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.”
Miranda Kerr
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“You can’t eat the mochi in the picture.”
Japanese Proverb
“Yesterday’s flowers are today’s dreams.”
Japanese Proverb
“A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make you feel high, for the single greatest commodity known to man – promise.”
J.D. Salinger
“Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better.”
Japanese Proverb
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
Japanese Proverb
“The true meaning of the samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.”
Morihei Ueshiba
“she is water. powerful enough to drown you soft enough to cleanse you deep enough to save you.”
adrian michael
“You can’t eat the rice cakes in the picture!”
Japanese Proverb
“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character.”
Lydia M. Child
“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.”
George Burns
“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”
Steve Maraboli
“Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren’t.”
Japanese Proverb
“Poetry is not the most important thing in life…..I’d much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets!”
Dylan Thomas
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere!”
Mae West
“She who gives birth to triplets cannot ask for a third breast.”
Proverb
“Cleanliness makes it easier to see the details.”
Aniekee Tochukwu
Ni usagi wo ou mono wa ichi usagi wo mo ezu.
“One who chases after two hares won’t catch even one.”
Japanese Proverb
“The Body is Tortured Only by the Demon of the Heart.”
Japanese Proverb
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare
“No road is too long in the company of a friend.”
Japanese Proverb
“My first thought in the morning is always you.”
Anonymous
“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
Marilyn Monroe
Bijin wa iwanedo, kakure nashi.
“Though a beautiful woman does not say anything, she cannot be hidden.”
Japanese Proverb
“Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.”
Japanese Proverb
“The best way to a fisherman’s heart is through his fly.”
Author Unknown
“It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it!”
W.C. Fields
“Keep a tree green in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.”
Asian Proverb
“It’s better to have your umbrella before getting wet!”
Japanese Proverb
“Fragrance of the spirit before fragrance of tea.”
( When a guest comes to visit, hospitality and kindness is more important than the tea that you offer.)
Japanese Proverb
“What is good is not necessarily beautiful.”
Japanese Proverb
“Those Who Play The Game Do Not See As Clearly As Those Who Watch!”
Chinese Proverb
“My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness spring — cleans the heart!”
Japanese Proverb
“When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.”
Japanese Proverb
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The Face Becomes the Mirror of the Soul”
Japanese Proverb
“The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.”
Lester Cole
Bijin hakumei
“A beautiful woman does not have a fortunate life.”
Japanese Proverb
The Yomeimon Gate is located at the Nikko Tosho-gu Shinto Shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Tosho-gu is dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Known also as the higurashi-no-mon, it is said that one could look at the gate until sundown and not tire of seeing it.
Watashi wa, utsukushii mono wa nan demo suki na no.
“I admire all that is beautiful.”
Japanese Proverb
“Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers.” Ja ne…..
Japanese Proverb
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
Francis Bacon
This vintage wartime photo shows a man posing outside, holding his “Good Luck Flag” or Hinomaru Yosegaki. The signed flag or hata is suspended from a wooden pole. Notice in particular, the thick, bold vertical kanji ideograms that are positioned closest to the round, red sun. This popular wartime slogan says, Buun Chokyu or “May Your Military Fortunes Be Long Lasting”. The vertical line of characters in the center give the name of the man who owns the flag. Mata ne……