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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

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

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

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

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

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.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

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.

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

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.

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

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

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

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

Nothing is more stylish than power.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

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.

Survival must come before civilization.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

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

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

Power always works from the corner office.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

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

So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.