Anonymous Quotes and Quotations
Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
Fire tries gold, misfortune men.
There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.
Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four, but he worries about it.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do . . . For all men have one entrance into life. The Apocrypha Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe Thursday's child has far to go Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child born on the Sabbath day Is happy and wise and good and gay.
Book lovers never go to bed alone.
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?
After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.
A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.
All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.
Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
Death is terrible to Cicero, desirable to Cato, and indifferent to Socrates.
To lose Is to learn.
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgement.
There is no such thing as a little garlic.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Friendship admits of differences of character, as love does that of sex.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
The parting genius is with sighing sent.
If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name?
He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.
At certain times of grave national stress, when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck, thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.
He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .
Hell is truth seen too late.
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.
Honour follows those who flee it.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
He who laughs, lasts.
Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver us!
Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.
When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
Liberty is always unfinished business.
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
In the act of loving someone you arm them against you.
A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.
To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.
If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.
A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
When you want really big money, you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.
Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.
Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.
Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.
A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.
One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
'Mr. President, I am praying for you. 'Which way, Senator?'
What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.
Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.
He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.
Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.
Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.
His shortcoming is his long staying.
If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.
There's a wonderful family called Stein, There's Gert, and there's Epp and there's Ein: Gert's poems are bunk, Epp's statues are junk, And no one can understand Ein.
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.
He'd give the devil ulcers.
The test for a prophet is in the Bible. It is this. "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken."
The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.
Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the bible and it's going to turn out all right.
The sea hath no king but God alone.
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country.
Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Somerset House in London where at one time English vital statistics were kept - birth, marriage and death records - was known as the egg factory "where they hatch 'em, match 'em, and dispatch 'em."
Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.
Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes.
Success is not so much what you are, but rather what you appear to be.
Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.
A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady, when asked why she never travelled, said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.
Some people handle the truth carelessly; Others never touch it at all.
Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.
Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.
A word to the wise is infuriating.
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
Some women blush when they are kissed; some call for the police; some swear; some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.
One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.
In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.
The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.
Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."
The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.
Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A friend is never known till a man has need.
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
All happiness is in the mind.
It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."
Better be happy than wise.
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
No pleasure without pain.
Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.
Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.
For so must it be, and help me do my part.
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.
Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.
They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.
If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.
He has enough who is contented with little.
More than enough is too much.
He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
He is not rich that possesses much, but he that is content with what he has.
He is not rich that possesses much, but he that is content with what he has.
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
Life is hard. Next to what?
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.
Acorns were good till bread was found.
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.
A little help is worth a great deal of pity.
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light, it scattered the night, And made the day worth living.
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
There is no physician like a true friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.
A hedge between keeps friendships green.
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Love your friend with his fault.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.
Friends come and go, enemies linger.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
Books and friends should be few but good.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
Keep good men company, and you shall be of their number.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A real friend helps us think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, be our finest selves.
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
The company makes the feast.
When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
God is no enemy to you. He asks no more than that He hear you call Him "Friend."
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
If life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels, it is a victory to him who believes.
The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
Faith is verification by the heart; confession by the tongue; action by the limbs.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
For the believer, there is no question; for the non-believer, there is no answer.
Prayer changes things.
The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.
God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.
Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away.
In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.
Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.
God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.
Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.
God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.
Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.
Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.
Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.
Short prayers pierceth Heaven.
Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.
God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him.
God receives little thanks, even for his greatest gifts.
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.
Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.
O Lord, forgive what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be.
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will, not the other way around.
How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads, and pray "Lord, show me where I'm wrong"?
God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.
When my children do wrong, I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.
Always look for ways to act upon the faith you display in your prayers.
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer, but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.
There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.
Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants"; God always answers with what we need.
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations, for only He knows the whole story.
When you go to your knees, God will help you stand up to anything.
Amazing things start happening when we start praying!
It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing, for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.
The wings of prayer carry high and far.
Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. ... We find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new life that can and does work under conditions whatever.
Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Some pursue happiness others create it.
If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.
What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.
The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, hastened, or retarded.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.
Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
Time is the tyrant of the body.
Time is the dressing room for eternity.
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.
Now is the only time we own; give, love, toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.
The present is all you have for your certain possession.
Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.
Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.
Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
With each sunrise, we start anew.
It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light, it scattered the night, And made the day worth living.
This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.
With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
The camel, at the close of day, Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again. My soul, thou too should to thy knees When daylight draweth to a close, And let thy Master lift the load And grant repose.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
The future is a great land.
The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
Boredom is a sickness of the soul.
Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.
Some days the dragon wins.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.
All happiness is in the mind.
It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
If you prepare for old age, old age comes sooner.
People, by and large, will relate to the image you project.
Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.
The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker.
Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it.
Everybody lives for something better to come.
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.
Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."
Faith, hope, and charity-if we had more of the first two, we'd need less of the last.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
To hope is not to demand.
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.
A good example is the best sermon.
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
A door must either be shut or open.
You cannot have it both ways.
Of two evils, choose the less.
Where bad's the best, bad must be the choice.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.
If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Bloom where you are planted.
Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.
So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.
To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!
Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.
Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.
Fear is the prison of the heart.
All fear is bondage.
Only your mind can produce fear.
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Better a fearful end than fear without end.
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.
Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.
Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.
A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.
Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.
He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.
"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders.
Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.
He that is not in the war is not out of danger.
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
No guts, no glory.
The brave venture anything.
The best way out of a problem is through it.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.
None are so blind as those who will not see.
You're only as sick as your secrets.
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
Valour is nobleness of the mind.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
A bold heart is half the battle.
A man of courage never wants weapons.
A brave arm makes a short sword long.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The brave venture anything.
Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.
The first step is the hardest.
Every beginning is hard.
If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.
If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
Performance releases pressure.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out.
If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up.
If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.
It takes time to be a success.
My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.
The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but it didn't work for the rabbit!
Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.
Luck is good planning, carefully executed.
Opportunity knocks but once.
The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.
What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
Work! Thank God for the swing of it, for the clamoring, hammering ring of it.
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.
It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
Be God or let God.
True worth is doing each day some little good, not dreaming of great things to do by and by.
One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.
Yard by yard, it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Yard by yard, it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
It was only a sunny smile, But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving; Like morning light, And made the day worth living.
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Persistence is the master virtue. Without it, there is no other.
A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.
I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.
Hope says to us constantly, "go on, go on," and leads us to the grave.
It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
Don't leave before the miracle happens!
He conquers who endures.
The best way out of a problem is through it.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.
Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath."
Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.
An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics], so let's just think of this as empty.
I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot."
A speech that's full of sparkling wit will keep its hearer grinning, provided its end is close to its beginning.
The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening.
We noticed a crasher at the bar - that shows what a real man he is - he's here to show he's not ticked for not being asked.
Response to clapping: "Thank you for ovating."
When I told her we were going to roast her, she said, "Of course, . . . they only crucify the innocent."
As one skeleton said to the other - if I had any guts I'd get the heck out of here.
Thanks for the nice introduction. Next to my resume, that's the closest I'll ever come to perfection.
We were worried that our main speaker wouldn't be able to make it tonight. But, fortunately, due to a hole in the prosecution's case . . .
I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.
When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."
Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously, they've never heard me tell a joke.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm pleased to be with you. (Pause) That concludes my prepared remarks.
I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.
She's not pushing forty, she's dragging it.
The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back, but you don't know how far.
Pushing fifty is exercise enough.
When I think of my dad as a little boy, I tend to think of him in black and white.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.
Life begins at fifty, but so does bad eyesight, arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.
When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity, she replied, "Red meat and gin."
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?
I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.
If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny, but are immature and tasteless, that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.
I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are.
To make a long story short, . . . there's nothing like having the boss walk in.
To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow.
No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.
The whole world knows we have it made in America . . . made in China, made in Mexico, made in Japan.
The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch."
A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends, enemies, and relatives say behind his back.
The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.
Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy.
The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.
The people of Seattle deny they get much rain, while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder.
The tanned appearance of many New Englanders is not sunburn - it is rust.
After years of mocking L.A. for its smog, the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.
L.A. bumper sticker: Keep honking - I'm reloading.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
A small town is usually divided by a railroad, a main street, two churches, and a lot of opinions.
texan starting eternity: I never dreamed heaven would be so much like Texas. companion: Who said this was heaven?
Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London.
I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.
Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want, call us and we'll show you how to live without it."
She's an honor student. She's always saying, "Yes, Your Honor. No, Your Honor."
Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language, but they come in handy in college football yells.
Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.
A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.
When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked, "The river or the state?"
Letter home from, college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.
Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.
A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.
It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.
Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.
It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts, but this is not true of a family tree.
To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."
Sis, I've been wondering . . . On my birthday mom always gives me five thousand dollars. How much does she give you?
My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said, "Okay, since you owe me the other five dollars, we'll call it even."
A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.
When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson, he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."
Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say, "Here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Oh, there you are."
Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.
With friends like you - who needs enemas.
As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: "Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people."
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?
To improve your memory, lend people money.
I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.
doctor to stout patient: You've been swallowing your food again.
His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them!
For my family to go on living the way they are living now, I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.
The other night, while lying on a couch, I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!
He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say, "I wish I spent more time in the office."
Being of sound mind, I spent every cent I ever had.
If you don't go to people's funerals, they won't come to yours.
Her figure is harder to ignore than a ringing telephone.
A big advantage of being bald is that you can style your hair with a damp cloth.
Definition of a bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation.
Before criticizing your wife's faults, remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.
When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad.
It's not that I'm too particular. It's just that I'm going to wait for Dr. Right.
I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.
Definition of a bachelor: A man who likes to invite girls over for a Scotch and sofa.
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
The last word in an argument is what a wife has. Anything a husband says after that is the beginning of another argument.
He loved her for what she was - rich. He worshiped the ground her family struck oil on.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Arguing with my wife is like this: "I came! I saw! I concurred!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
They were married for better or worse. He couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
The man who boasts he never made a mistake is often married to the woman who did.
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
This is a perfect pair - he's a hypochondriac and she's a pill.
Keeping a secret from my wife is like trying to smuggle daylight past a rooster. Annoyed wife to husband: Can't you just say we've been married twenty-four years instead of "almost a quarter of a century"?
You might try doing what my folks did. Twice a week they would go out for a special meal. . . with wine, good food, and soft lighting. Dad took Tuesday and Mom took Thursday.
He had a great sound system - but he didn't know much about fidelity.
After our honeymoon I felt like a new man. She said she did too.
My wife divorced me because of illness. She got sick of me.
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first divorced me and the second won't.
For their last anniversary, she gave him a set of luggage - packed.
A faithful husband is one whose alimony check is always on time.
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
Not all of his relationships were meant to end . . . Once he sent a postcard and inadvertently wrote "Wish you were her."
Going shopping with your husband is like his going fishing with the game warden.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
Outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.
Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.
The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.
By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late, he's too old to enjoy it.
Definition of Father's Day: Same as Mother's Day but you don't spend as much.
My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.
Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business.
Dad named his first ulcer after me.
MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.
I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.
If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics
Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.
Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.
I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.
A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.
Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl - and work like a dog.
I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
God created man and then woman, but the atheist created himself.
As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?"
Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.
The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Retirement: Twice as much husband, half as much pay.
Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire, so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.
Since our boss will be retiring soon, it's been suggested that we give him a little momentum.
He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.
It's not that I really cheat at golf. I play for my health, and a low score makes me feel better.
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
This guy is such an obvious cheater that once, when he had a hole in one, he wrote down zero on his scorecard.
If people focused on life's really important matters, there'd be a shortage of golf clubs.
I'm not playing with my brother-in-law today. Would you play with a man who improves his lie and cheats on his score? Well, neither would he!
When asked how long I've worked here, I replied, "since the day they threatened to fire me."
If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.
He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The ability to sin differs among people. For example, a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.
The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.
It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.
I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
Let's just say, he has too many pigeons on his antenna.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.
A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.
If Noah found himself back on Earth, you can bet all he would recognize would be the jokes.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do. I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.
I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.
Here's to one of the most beautiful, kind, thoughtful people I have ever known . . . You are getting more like me every day.
A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.
Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose; Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you've got to advertise.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
I am an atheist, thank God!
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.
A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.
A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.
A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
Born on Monday, fair in the face; Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, sour and sad; Born on Thursday, merry and glad; Born on Friday, worthily given;
God bless me and my son John, Me and my wife, him and his wife, Us four, and no more.
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
Old houses mended
Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well; Who put her in? Little Tommy Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout.
If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
I exhort you to be of good cheer.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
The long arm of coincidence.
Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
Blue is true, Yellow's jealous, Green's forsaken, Red's brazen, White is love, And black is death.
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
How grand is victory, but how dear!
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Every dog is entitled to one bite.
It's a long time between drinks.
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
How are the mighty fallen!
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell, But they never farmed, so how can they tell?
'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.
As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.
A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genius is only great patience.
A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
God helps those who help themselves.
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The house appointed for all living.
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero.
History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Some women blush when they are kissed; some call for the police, some swear; some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.
A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest.
Much learning doth make thee mad.
One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.
Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless what'er you do.
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Necessity has no law.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
By evil report and good report.
Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.
Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
Party honesty is party expediency.
The waters wear the stones.
A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
Prayer is the voice of faith.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
God hath made of one blood all nations of men.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.
Reforms should begin at home and stay there.
Republics are ungrateful.
A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.
Rome was not built in a day.
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
There is a skeleton in every house.
The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.
Beware of him that telleth tales.
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
In time take time while time doth last, for time Is no time when time is past.
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.
How beautiful is victory, but how dear!
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
As a rule man is a fool, When it's hot he wants it cool, When it's cool he wants it hot, Always wanting what is not.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.
This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
The rich know not who is his friend.
A true friend is the best possession.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Better be happy than wise.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.