Lois Wyse Quotes

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

Survival must come before civilization.