A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about. ![]() For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick, and the Doctor said she would not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box, and when he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000. He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married,” she said, “my grandmother told me that the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.” The little old man was so moved - he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness. “Honey,” he said, “that explains the doll, but what about all of this money - where did it come from?” ![]() “Oh,” she said, “that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.” Patience Prayer Dear Lord, I pray for Wisdom to understand my man; Love to forgive him, and Patience for his moods; Because Lord, if I pray for Strength, I’ll beat him to death, Because I don’t know how to crochet. Every man over 40 is a scoundrel. - George Bernard Shaw Ability is a poor man's wealth. - John Wooden A fool and his money are soon partying. - Steven Wright Virtue was never as respectable as money. - Mark Twain The best way to hold a man is in your arms. - Mae West Expert: a man who makes his mistakes quietly. - Unknown The rich are different - they have more money. - Ernest Hemingway Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain The man who has a full set of tools has no children. - Unknown What a lot of things there are a man can do without. - Socrates No man should plant more garden than his wife can hoe. - Old Saying A weeping man and a smiling woman are not to be trusted. - Indian Proverb I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination. - Kristin Hannah The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. - Nicolas Baileau If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in. - Chinese Proverb An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. - Socrates A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. - Oscar Wilde He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones. - Anthony Liccione A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts. - Beverly Sills Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide It's not the size of the man in the fight, but the size of the fight in the man. - Unknown Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. - Mac McCleary The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. - Tommy Lasorda The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. - Roger Bannister The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. - Red Auerbach A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. - Charles Darwin Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. - Demosthenes The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters. - Dakota Fanning A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it. - Alistair Cooke For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. - Catherine Zeta-Jones Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch see also Finance, Marriage, Relationship & Survivor Sections Nope, Didn’t See A Thing |
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