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Dancing is a wonderful training for
girls: it's the first way you
learn to guess what a man is going to do
before he does it.
Christopher Morley
Only an old-timer can remember when dancing
was done with the feet.
With some of today's dance steps you
don't know if the guy on the floor
is a good dancer or a bad drunk.
The rhumba is a foxtrot with the
backfield in motion.
Dancing is the art of getting your feet out
of the way faster than your
partner can step on them.
He who dances must pay the fiddler ‑
also the waiter, the florist,
the hat check girl, the doorman, and the
parking attendant.
The difference between wrestling and
dancing is that some holds are
barred in wrestling.
Those who perform the modern dance
exercise everything except
discretion.
A jitterbug is not an insect. It's a
human being acting like one.
Judging from present‑day dancing,
familiarity doesn't breed as
much contempt as it ought to.
The belly dance was originated by someone
trying to take off a
union suit in an upper berth.
The dance called the twist created an
interesting phenomenon.
For the first time in history clothes
were worn out from the inside.
A
"He does a terrific tango ‑ no
matter what the band is playing."
The latest new dance craze is called,
"The Politician." It's two
steps forward, one step backward, and
then a sidestep.
Belly dancing is the only profession
where the beginner starts
in
the middle.
A timid person is frightened before a
danger, a coward during the
time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter
Danger itself is the best remedy for
danger.
He that would sail without danger must
never come on the
main sea.
Fear the goat from the front, the horse
from the rear, and man
from all sides.
Russian proverb
Night conceals a world but reveals a
universe.
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Night falls but never breaks, and day
breaks but never falls.
Night is the Sabbath of mankind,
To rest the body and the mind.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
Henry
When God sends the dawn, he sends it for
all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou
knowest not what a day may
bring forth.
Proverbs 27:1
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.
Matthew 6:34
When you come to the end of a perfect
day, it probably isn't over yet.
Make each day count, but don't count each
day.
The safest way to start the day is to go
back to bed.
There ought to be a better way of
starting the day than having to get up.
The best thing about the "good old
days" is that they are forever gone.
The longest days are those you start with
a grouch.
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can
do today; by tomorrow there may be a law against it.
How beautiful a day can be when kindness
touches it.
The most utterly lost of all days is the
one in which you have not once laughed.
About all some people can say at the end
of the day is that it's done.
It's old age when each day makes you feel
two days older.
Blessed are the deaf, for they shall miss
much idle gossip.
Death is nature's way of telling a man to
slow down.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory?
1 Corinthians 15:55
I have fought a good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept
the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7
Cheerio, see you soon.
He has gone over to the majority.
Petronius
People who are afraid of death are
usually afraid of life.
Make this your motto: Don't die until you
are dead.
There are two places the jet planes have
brought closer together ‑ this world and the next.
Nothing improves a man's appearance as
much as the photograph the newspapers use with his obituary.
On his examination paper a boy wrote,
"A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's
help."
Drive carefully! Motorists can be
recalled by their maker.
A new cigarette offers coupons good for a
cemetery lot.
A sure cure for conceit is a visit to the
cemetery, where eggheads and boneheads get equal billing.
Nothing seems to make the cost of living
as reasonable as pricing funerals.
It's hard to understand how an
The person who is never criticized is not
breathing.
The nearer the time comes for our
departure from this life, the greater our regret for wasting so much of it.
Death is not a period but a comma in the
story of life.
Some people have been dead for several
years, but they just prefer not to have it known.
So live that when death comes the mourners
will outnumber the cheering section.
No one is dead as long as he is
remembered by someone.
When we die we leave behind us all that
we have and take with us all that we are.
Natural death is now defined as being
killed by an automobile.
A hunter in
Everyone should fear death until he has
something that will live on after his death.
Depending on how a man lives, he may die
old at forty or young at eighty.
There are worse things than death for
some people ‑ take life, for instance.
A person can survive almost everything except
death.
If you drink before you drive, you are
`putting the quart before the hearse.'
Fame is chiefly a matter of dying at the
right time.
A single rose for the living is better
than a costly wreath at the grave.
A grouch never goes where he's told until
he dies.
In a world where death is, we should have
no time to hate.
Be as kind as you can today; tomorrow you
may not be here.
You can't live without lawyers, and
certainly you can't die without them.
The one thing certain about life is that
we must leave it.
A man in
The only thing worse than growing old is
to be denied the privilege.
Most people would die sooner than think;
in fact, they do.
Bertrand Russell
Dying is an art, like everything else.
Sylvia Plath
Death does not blow a trumpet.
Danish proverb
It is not death but dying which is
terrible.
Six feet of earth make all equal.
No man should be afraid to die, who hath
understood what it is to
live.
Thomas Fuller
All I desire for my own burial is not to
be buried alive.
Lord Chesterfield
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's
always death.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He that lives to forever, never fears
dying.
William Penn
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
... Sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy
grave,
Like one that wraps the drapery of his
couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant
dreams.
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
A corpse is something like the cover of
an old book, its contents torn
out, and stript of its lettering and
gilding ... yet the work itself
shall not be lost, for it will appear
once more in a new and more
beautiful edition.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
A funeral among men is a wedding feast
among the angels.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
A good man never dies-
In worthy deed and prayer
And helpful hands, and honest eyes,
If smiles or tears be there;
Who lives for you and me-
Lives for the world he tries
To help-he lives eternally.
A good man never dies.
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short
and pithy sermon to the
soul.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
A man I know found out last year he had
terminal cancer. He was a
doctor and knew about dying, and he
didn't want to make his family and
friends suffer through that with him. So
he kept his secret. And died.
Everybody said how brave he was to bear
his suffering in silence and
not tell everybody, and so on and so
forth. But privately his family
and friends said how angry they were that
he didn't need them, didn't
trust their strength. And it hurt that he
didn't say goodbye.
Robert Fulghum
A man should be mourned at his birth, not
at his death.
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
(1689-1755)
A man's dying is more the survivor's
affair than his own.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
A single death is a tragedy, a million
deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
A sudden death is but a sudden joy.
After sixty years the stern sentence of
the burial service seems to
have a meaning that one did not notice in
former years. There begins
to be something personal about it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Ah Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell
us
What and where they be.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
All days travel toward death, the last
one reaches it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
All mankind is of one Author, and is one
volume; when one man dies,
one chapter is not torn out of the book,
but translated into a better
language; and every chapter must be so
translated; God employs several
translators; some pieces are translated
by age, some by sickness, some
by war, some by justice; but God's hand
is in every translation, and
his hand shall bind up all our scattered
leaves again for that library
where every book shall lie open to one
another.
John Donne (1572-1631)
All our finite eyes could tell us
Was the sadness and the gloom,
All the emptiness and silence
Of the sorrow-striken room;
But we could not see the welcome,
Could not hear the angels sing,
Nor the shouts of exultation
As the pilgrim entered in.
F. Norman Barrington
And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
And thou, most kind and gentle death,
Waiting to hush our latest breath;
O Praise Him-Alleluia!
Thou leadest home the child of God
And Christ our Lord the way hath trod.
Saint Francis Of
And what is so intricate, so entangling
as death? Who ever got out of
a winding sheet?
John Donne (1572-1631)
Angels, joyful to attend,
Hov'ring, round thy pillow bend;
Wait to catch the signal giv'n,
And escort thee quick to heav'n.
Saints in glory perfect made,
Wait thy passage through the shade;
Ardent for thy coming o'er,
See, they throng the blissful shore.
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778)
Anyone not coming to be a dead one before
coming to be an old one
comes to be an old one and comes then to
be a dead one as any old one
comes to be a dead one.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Are we willing to not run away from the
pain, to not get busy when
there is nothing to do and instead stand
rather in the face of death
together with those who grieve?
Henri J. M. Nouwen
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so life well used brings happy
death.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
As the mother's womb holds us for nine
months, making us ready, not
for the womb itself, but for life, just
so, through our lives, we are
making ourselves ready for another
birth.... Therefore, look forward
without fear to that appointed hour-the
last hour of the body, but not
of the soul.... That day, which you fear
as being the end of all
things, is the birthday of your eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
As to death, we can experience it but
once and are all apprentices
when we come to it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
At death we cross from one territory to
another, but we'll have no
trouble with visas. Our representative is
already there, preparing for
our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our
entrance is incontestable.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Be near me, Lord, when dying;
O show thy cross to me;
And, for my succour flying,
Come, Lord to set me free;
These eyes, new faith receiving,
From thee shall never move;
For he who dies believing
Dies safely through thy love.
Bernard Of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Be still prepared for death
And death or life shall thereby be the
sweeter.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)
Because through death alone we become
liberated,
I say it is the best of all the things
created.
Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)
By all standards, death is the most
dreaded event. Our society will
pay any price to prolong life. Just one
more month, or even another
day. Perhaps our desire to postpone death
reflects our dissatisfaction
with God's ultimate purpose. Remember,
his work isn't finished until
we are glorified. Most of us would like
to see God's work remain half
finished. We're glad we are called and
justified, but we're not too
excited about being glorified.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
By turns we catch the fatal breath and
die.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Christ taught an astonishing thing about
physical death: not merely
that it is an experience robbed of its
terror, but that as an
experience it does not exist at all. To
"sleep in Christ," "depart and
be with Christ," "fall
asleep,"-these are the expressions the New
Testament uses. It is high time the
"icy river," "the gloomy portal,"
"the bitter pains," and all the
rest of the melancholy images were
brought face to face with the fact: Jesus
Christ has abolished death.
J. B. Phillips (1906-1982)
Coffin: a container small enough for
bums, large enough for
presidents.
Coffin: a room without a door or a
skylight.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely
arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to
each,
Sooner or later, delicate death.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865)
Death cancels everything but truth.
Death has an amazing power of altering
what a man desires because
death profoundly affects his outlook.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Death has got something to be said for
it;
There's no need to get out of bed for it;
Wherever you may be,
They bring it to you, free.
Kingsley Amis (1922- )
Death is a camel that lies down at every
door.
Persian Proverb
Death is an awfully big adventure.
Sir James M. Barrie (1860-1937)
Death is as necessary to the constitution
as sleep, we shall rise
refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Death is but a sharp corner near the
beginning of life's procession
down eternity.
John Ayscough (1858-1928)
Death is God's delightful way of giving
us life.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Death is merely moving from one home to
another.
The Kotzker Rabbi (1787-1859)
Death is nature's way of telling you to
slow down.
Death is not a journeying into an unknown
land; it is a voyage home.
We are going not to a strange country,
but to our Father's house, and
among our kith and kin.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Death is not death if it raises us in a
moment from darkness into
light, from weakness into strength, from
sinfulness into holiness.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Death is not death if it rids us of doubt
and fear, of chance and
change, of space and time, and all which
space and time bring forth
and then destroy.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Death is not extinguishing the light; it
is only putting out the lamp
because the dawn has come.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Death is not the end; it is only a new
beginning. Death is not the
master of the house; he is only the
porter at the King's lodge,
appointed to open the gate and let the
King's guests into the realm of
eternal day.
John Henry Jowett (1864-1923)
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies
inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins (1912- )
Death is psychologically as important as
birth.... Shrinking away from
it is something unhealthy and abnormal
which robs the second half of
life of its purpose.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Death is the end of labor, entry into
rest.
William Alexander
Death is the flowering of life, the
consummation of union with God.
Death is the grand leveller.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Death is the great adventure beside which
moon landings and space
trips pale into insignificance.
Joseph Bayly (1920-1986)
Death is the Liberator of him whom
freedom cannot release, the
Physician of him whom medicine cannot cure,
and the Comforter of him
whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Death is the opening of a more subtle
life. In the flower, it sets
free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the
butterfly; in man, the soul.
Juliette Adam (1836-1936)
Death keeps no calendar.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Death may be free-but it costs a life.
Jewish Proverb
Death opens unknown doors. It is most
grand to die.
John Masefield (1878-1967)
Death takes no bribes.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Death to the Christian is the funeral of
all his sorrows and evils,
and the resurrection of all his joys.
Aughey
Death's but a path that must be trod, If
man would ever pass to God.
Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
Death's truer name
Is "Onward," no discordance in the
roll
And march of that eternal harmony
Whereto the world beats time.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Death, death; O amiable lovely death!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Death, the gate of life.
Bernard Of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Death, the grisly terror.
John Milton (1608-1674)
Death, to a good man, is but passing
through a dark entry, out of one
little dusky room of his Father's house
into another that is fair and
large, lightsome and glorious, and
divinely entertaining.
McDonald Clarke (1798-1842)
Death-the last sleep? No, it is the final
awakening.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Death: a punishment to some, to some a
gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
Death: when man is put to bed with a
shovel.
Death: when the soul shall emerge from
its sheath.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)
Down you mongrel, Death! Back into your
kennel!
Edna
Each departed friend is a magnet that
attracts us to the next world.
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825)
Every man knows he will die, but no one
wants to believe it.
Jewish Proverb
Every man must do two things alone; he
must do his own believing and
his own dying.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but
nobody wants to die.
Joe Louis (1914- )
Fear not that your life shall come to an
end, but rather fear that it
shall never have a beginning.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
For each of us there comes a moment when
death takes us by the hand
and says-it is time to rest, you are
tired, lie down and sleep.
Will Hay (1888-1949)
For restful death I cry.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
God buries his workmen but carries on his
work.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
God calls our loved ones,
But we lose not wholly
What he hath given;
They live on earth
In thought and deed
As truly in his heaven.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
God's eternity and man's mortality join
to persuade us that faith in
Jesus Christ is not optional.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not
thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Grass grows at last above all graves.
Julia C. R. Dorr (1825-1913)
Has this world been so kind to you that you
would leave it with
regret? There are better things ahead
than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
He who does not fear death has no fear of
threats.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
Here's death, twitching my ear:
"Live," says he, "for I'm
coming."
Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
His maker kissed his soul away,
And laid his flesh to rest.
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
How strange this fear of death is! We are
never frightened at a
sunset.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
I acquiesce in my death with complete
willingness, uncolored by
hesitation; how foolish to cling to life
when God has ordained
otherwise!
Jorge Manrique (C. 1440-1479)
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh
yes, that to me is often an
appealing prospect.
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (1867-1945)
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me
waiting.
John Brown (1715-1766)
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my
Maker is prepared for the
great ordeal of meeting me is another
matter.
Winston Churchill on his 75th birthday
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I
do not find these vanishing
acts of theirs at all amusing.
I go from a corruptible to an
incorruptible crown, where no
disturbance can have place.
Charles I, King of
I have talked to doctors and nurses who
have held the hands of dying
people, and they say that there is as
much difference between the
death of a Christian and a non-Christian
as there is between heaven
and hell.
Billy Graham (1918- )
I look forward to it with an intense and
reverent curiosity.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
I look upon life as a gift from God. I
did nothing to earn it. Now
that the time is coming to give it back, I
have no right to complain.
Joyce Cary (1888-1957)
I never knew what joy was until I gave up
pursuing happiness, or cared
to live until I chose to die. For these
two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
I shall die, but that is all that I shall
do for Death; I am not on
his payroll.
Edna
I shall not live 'till I see God; and
when I have seen him, I shall
never die.
John Donne (1572-1631)
I think funerals are barbaric and
miserable. Everything connected with
them-the black, the casket, the shiny
hearse, the sepulchral tones of
the preacher-is destructive to true
memory.
Mary Mannes (1904- )
I'm not afraid to die, honey. In fact,
I'm kind of looking forward to
it. I know the Lord has his arms wrapped
around this big, fat sparrow.
Ethel Waters (1896-1977)
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want
to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen (1937- )
If death be terrible, the fault is not in
death, but thee.
If we really think that home is elsewhere
and that this life is a
"wandering to find home," why
should we not look forward to the
arrival?
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
If you submit to God's will, everything,
including the time of your
death, is under God's supervision.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
If you treat your friend shabbily while
he lives, you have no right to
try to even up matters by whining over
him when he is dead.
Joseph F. Berry (1856-1931)
In my end is my beginning.
Mary Stuart (1542-1587)
Is this the end? I know it cannot be,
Our ships shall sail upon another sea;
New islands yet shall break upon our
sight,
New continents of love and truth and
might.
John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
It is as natural to die as to be born.
It is in dying that we are born to
eternal life.
Saint Francis of
Jesus audaciously abolished death,
transforming it from a door that
slammed to, into one that opened to
whoever knocked.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
Jesus Christ alone is qualified to guide
us into the vast unknown.
Since he is the only one who has returned
from the grave, he tells us
accurately about life after death.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the northwind's
breath,
And stars to set-but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O
Death!
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
Let dissolution come when it will, it can
do the Christian no harm,
for it will be but a passage out of a
prison into a palace; out of a
sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out
of a crowd of enemies into
an innumerable company of true, loving
and faithful friends; out of
shame, reproach and contempt, into
exceeding great and eternal glory.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Let me die
As the leaves die,
Gladly.
D. C. Claussen
Let us not lament too much the passing of
our friends. They are not
dead, but simply gone before us along the
road which all must travel.
Antiphanes (C. 388-C. 311 B.C.)
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returneth,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry
Like as the waves make toward the pebbled
shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we
tend:
The world's an inn, and death the
journey's end.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Lord Jesus, you died to help me die. Take
my life. I draw no
protective line around anything that
needs to go.
François Fénelon (1651-1715)
Lord, grant that my last hour may be my
best hour.
Old English Prayer
Lord, look out for me when I die. Make it
a good experience.
Saint Francis of Sales (1567-1622)
Memorial service: farewell party for
someone who has already left.
Robert Byrne
Men fear death as children fear to go in
the dark; and as that natural
fear in children is increased with tales,
so is the other.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Men fear death because they refuse to
understand it. But the way a man
dies is more important than death itself.
Fine dying is a man's
privilege, for that man can himself
control. We cannot influence
death, but we can influence the style of
our departure. Men surprise
themselves by the fashion in which they
face this death: some more
proudly and more valiantly than ever they
dared imagine; and some in
abject terror.
Cyrus L. Sulzberger (1858-1932)
My name is Death; the last best friend am
I.
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Nature herself gives us courage.... death
is not to be feared. It is a
friend. No man dies before his hour. The
time you leave behind was no
more yours than that which was before
your birth and concerneth you no
more. Make room for others as others have
done for you. Like a
full-fed guest, depart to rest.... The
profit of life consists not in
the space, but in the use. Some man hath
lived long that has had a
short life....
Depart then without fear out of this
world even as you came into
it. The same way you came from death to
life, return from life to
death. Yield your torch to others as in a
race. Your death is but a
piece of the world's order, but a parcel
of the world's life.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572-1631)
No man ever repented of being a Christian
on his death bed.
Hannah More (1745-1833)
Nothing is so certain as death, and
nothing is so uncertain as the
hour of death.
Nothing seems worse to a man than his
death, and yet it may be the
height of his good luck.
Irish Proverb
Now we face a paradox: on the one hand
nothing in the world is more
precious than one single human person; on
the other hand nothing in
the world is more squandered, more
exposed to all kinds of dangers,
than the human being-and this condition
must be. What is the meaning
of this paradox? It is perfectly clear.
We have here a sign that man
knows very well that death is not an end,
but a beginning.... Life is
changed, life is not taken away.
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
O how small a portion of earth will hold
us when we are dead, who
ambitiously seek after the whole world
while we are living.
Philip II (382-336 B.C.)
Of all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward into souls afar,
Along the Psalmist's music deep,
Now tell me if there any is,
For gift or grace, surpassing this-
"He giveth his beloved sleep!"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Of course, I do not want to go-this is a
mighty interesting world, and
I'm having a mighty good time in it. But
I am no more afraid of going
than of going through the door of this
study. For I know that I shall
then have a spiritual body to do with as
I please, and I won't have to
worry about the aches and pains of this
poor physical body.
Ozora S. Davis
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's
always death.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Oh, what a sign it is of evil life
When death's approach is seen so
terrible.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Old men go to death; death comes to young
men.
On the day of death, when my bier is on
the move, do not suppose that
I have any pain at leaving this world. Do
not weep for me, say not,
"Alas, alas!" You will fall
into the devil's snare-that would indeed
be alas! When you see my hearse, say not,
"Parting, parting!" That
time there will be for me union and
encounter. When you commit me to
the grave, say not, "Farewell,
farewell!" For the grave is a veil over
the reunion of paradise. Having seen the
going-down, look upon the
coming-up; how should setting impair the
sun and the moon? To you it
appears as setting, but it is a rising;
the tomb appears as a prison,
but it is release for the soul. What seed
ever went down into the
earth which did not grow? Why do you
doubt so regarding the human seed?
Jalal Al-Din Ar-Rumi (C. 1207-1273)
One can survive everything nowadays
except death.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
One consolation of death is that it is
also the end of your taxes.
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a
magistrate; but he must
die a man. The bed of death brings every
human being to his pure
individuality, to the intense
contemplation of that deepest and most
solemn of all relations-the relation
between the creature and his Creator.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
One must always have one's boots on and
be ready to go.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
One of the great lessons the fall of the
leaf teaches is this: Do your
work well and then be ready to depart
when God shall call.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
and death shall be no more:
death, thou shalt die.
John Donne (1572-1631)
One who longs for death is miserable, but
more miserable is he who
fears it.
Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591-1635)
Our Lord makes little of physical death,
but he makes much of moral
and spiritual death.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Our valleys may be filled with foes and
tears; but we can lift our
eyes to the hills to see God and the
angels, heaven's spectators, who
support us according to God's infinite
wisdom as they prepare our
welcome home.
Billy Graham (1918- )
Out of the finite darkness,
Into the infinite light.
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908)
Pale Death, with impartial step, knocks
at the poor man's cottage and
at the palaces of kings.
Horace (65-8 B.C.)
People living deeply have no fear of
death.
Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
Revenge triumphs over death. Love slights
it. Honor aspires to it.
Grief flies to it. Fear preoccupies it.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Shall I doubt my Father's mercy?
Shall I think of death as doom,
Or the stepping o'er the threshold
To a bigger, brighter room?
Robert Freeman (1878-1940)
Sleep on, beloved, sleep, and take thy
rest;
Lay down thy head upon thy Savior's
breast;
We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee
best-
Good night! Good night! Good night!
Sarah Doudney (1843-1926)
So he passed over, and all the trumpets
sounded for him on the other
side.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Someday you will read in the papers that
D. L. Moody of East
shall be more alive than now. I shall
have gone up higher, that is
all-out of this old clay tenement into a
house that is immortal; a
body that death cannot touch, that sin
cannot taint, a body fashioned
like unto his glorious body. That which
is born of the flesh may die.
That which is born of the spirit will
live forever.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning at the bar
When I put out to sea ...
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and
Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Take care of your life and the Lord will
take care of your death.
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Bishop Thomas Ken (1637-1711)
The Angel of Death has been abroad
throughout the land; you may almost
hear the beating of his wings.
John Bright (1811-1889)
The believer is freed from death as a
curse. The nature of death is
taken away, and therefore the name is
changed. It is but called a
sleep, and a sleep in Christ, and a
gathering to our fathers, a
change, a departing. Death is the godly
man's wish, the wicked man's fear.
Samuel Bolton (1606-1654)
The certainty that he who went through
death, who restored the
connection between nature and the
spiritual world, changes death to
win a triumph, a triumph that is awaiting
us like the warrior who is
going toward a certain victory. Although
I want to live and labor as
long as God lets me, I consider the
moment of my death as the most
precious of my life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
(1775-1854)
The crooked paths look straighter as we
approach the end.
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825)
The fear of death is ingrafted in the
common nature of all men, but
faith works it out of Christians.
Vavasor Powell
The fear of death is worse than death.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
The grave is but the threshold of
eternity.
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
The hour of departure has arrived, and we
go our ways-I to die, and
you to live. Which is better only God
knows.
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
The last words of Noah Webster probably
were: zyme, zymosis, and
zymurgy.
The lilies of the field whose bloom is
brief;
We are as they;
Like them we fade away
As doth a leaf.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
The man who dies out of Christ is said to
be lost, and hardly a word
in the English tongue expresses his
condition with greater accuracy.
He has squandered a rare fortune and at
the last he stands for a
fleeting moment and looks around, a moral
fool, a wastrel who has lost
in one overwhelming and irrecoverable
loss, his soul, his life, his
peace, his total, mysterious personality,
his dear and everlasting
all.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
The only ultimate disaster that can
befall us is to feel ourselves at
home on this earth.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
The pain is brief, but the joy eternal!
Johann Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
The rich, the poor, the great, the small
Are levell'd. Death confounds 'em all.
John Gay (1685-1732)
The seed dies into a new life and so does
man.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
The statistics on death are quite
impressive. One out of one people
die.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
The stroke of death is as a lover's
pinch,
Which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The world recedes; it disappears;
Heav'n opens on my eyes; my ears
With sound seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! Where is thy victory?
O death! Where is thy sting?
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
There are no dead people, Lord.
There are only the living, on earth and
beyond.
Death exists, Lord,
But it's nothing but a moment,
A second, a step,
The step from provisional to permanent,
From temporal to eternal.
As in the death of the child the
adolescent is born,
From the caterpillar emerges the
butterfly,
From the grain the full-blown sheath.
Michel Quoist (1921- )
There is no death. Only a change of
worlds.
Chief Seattle
There is no death.
What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but the suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call death.
She is not dead-the child of our
affection-
But gone unto that school
Where she no longer needs our poor protection,
And Christ himself doth rule.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
There is only one way to be born and a
thousand ways to die.
Serbian Proverb
There was a time when I dreaded the
thought of moving. I have enjoyed
this house, and in many ways it has been
pleasant. But I know I will
soon have to leave it, so recently I've
been consulting the blueprints
of my future residence. The more I study
God's Word, the more I'm
overwhelmed by the advantages of that new
home. So much so, that I'm
getting eager to go to be with the one
who is preparing that place for
me in the Father's mansions. Somehow this
old crumbling house is
losing its appeal.
M. R. Dehaan (1891-1965)
There were some who said that a man at
the point of death was more
free than all others, because death
breaks every bond , and over the
dead the united world has no power.
François Fénelon (1651-1715)
There's no dying by proxy.
French Proverb
There's one thing that keeps surprising
you about stormy old friends
after they die-their silence.
Ben Hecht (1894-1964)
These eyes, new faith receiving,
From Jesus shall not move;
For he who dies believing,
Dies safely, through thy love.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Think of stepping on shore and finding it
heaven! Of taking hold of a
hand and finding it God's! Of breathing a
new air and finding it
celestial air! Of feeling invigorated and
finding it immortality! Of
passing from storm and stress to a
perfect calm! Of waking and finding
it home!
This world is the land of the dying; the
next is the land of the
living.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
Those who live in the Lord never see each
other for the last time.
German Proverb
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives
must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Though too much valour may our fortunes
try,
To live in fear of death is many times to
die.
Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
We all labor against our own cure; for
death is the cure for all
diseases.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
We are but tenants, and ... shortly the
great Landlord will give us
notice that our lease has expired.
Joseph Jefferson (1774-1832)
There are, aren't there, only three
things we can do about death: to
desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
We go to the grave of a friend, saying,
"A man is dead." But angels
throng about him, saying, "A man is
born."
Christian Shriver Gotthold (C. 1700)
We picture death as coming to destroy;
let us rather picture Christ as
coming to save. We think of death as
ending; let us rather think of
life as beginning, and that more abundantly.
We think of parting; let
us think of meeting. We think of doing
away; let us think of arriving.
And as the voice of death whispers,
"You must go from earth," let us
hear the voice of Christ saying,
"You are but coming to me!"
Norman Macleod (1812-1872)
We should teach our children to think no
more of their bodies when
dead than they do of their hair when cut
off, or of their old clothes
when they have done with them.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
We understand death for the first time
when he puts his hand upon one
whom we love.
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël (1766-1817)
Weep if you must,
Parting is here-
But life goes on,
So sing as well.
Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979)
What a scandal it would cause if an
undertaker gave way to
cheerfulness and whistled at his work!
Ed Howe (1853-1937)
What is the Lord saying? There's only one
message: "Trust me. Even
when you don't understand and can't
comprehend: trust me!"
E. V. Hill on the death of his wife
What we call death was to him only
emigration, and I care not where he
now tarries. He is doing God's will, and
more alive than ever he was
on earth.
Amelia Edith Barr (1831-1919)
When a man dies, he clutches in his hands
only that which he has given
away in his lifetime.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight, it concentrates
his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
When all is done, say not my day is o'er,
And that thro' night I seek a dimmer
shore:
Say rather that my morn has just begun-
I greet the dawn and not a setting sun,
When all is done.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
When asked what he thought would happen
to him when he died, the man
replied, "I suppose I shall inherit
eternal bliss, but I wish you
wouldn't talk about such unpleasant
subjects."
When death, the great reconciler, has
come, it is never our tenderness
that we regret, but our severity.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
When I die, I should like to slip out of
the room without fuss-for
what matters is not what I am leaving,
but where I am going.
William Barclay (1907-1978)
When I go down to the grave I can say,
like so many others, I have
finished my work; but I cannot say I have
finished my life. My day's
work will begin the next morning. My tomb
is not a blind alley. It is
a thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight
to open in the dawn.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
When I look upon the tombs of the great,
every emotion of envy dies in
me; when I read the epitaphs of the
beautiful, every inordinate desire
goes out; when I meet with the grief of
parents upon a tombstone, my
heart melts with compassion; when I see
the tombs of the parents
themselves, I consider the vanity of
grieving for those whom we must
quickly follow; when I see kings lying by
those who deposed them, when
I consider rival wits placed side by
side, or the holy men that
divided the world with their contests and
disputes, I reflect with
sorrow and astonishment on the little
competitions, factions, and
debates of mankind.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
When our parents are living, we feel that
they stand between us and
death; when they go, we move to the edge
of the unknown.
R. I. Fitzhenry
When the friends we love the best
Lie in their churchyard bed,
We must not cry too bitterly
Over the happy dead.
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895)
When the landscape darkens and the
trembling pilgrim comes to the
Valley of the Shadow, he is not afraid to
enter: he takes the rod and
staff of Scripture in his hand; he says
to friend and comrade,
"Good-bye; we shall meet
again;" and comforted by that support, he
goes toward the lonely pass as one who
walks through darkness into light.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
Whoso lives the holiest life is fittest
far to die.
Margaret Preston (1820-1897)
Why dost thou fear thy last day? It
contributes no more to thy death
than does every other day. The last step
does not cause the lassitude:
it declares it. All days journey toward
death; the last arrives there.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and
grieve at a funeral? It is
because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Wouldn't you think a man a prize fool if
he burst into tears because
he didn't live a thousand years ago? A
man is as much a fool for
shedding tears because he isn't going to
be alive a thousand years
from now.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
You can't die, for you are linked to the
permanent life of God through
Jesus Christ.
J. B. Phillips (1906-1982)
You have laughed God out of your schools,
out of your books, and out
of your life, but you cannot laugh him
out of your death.
Dagobert Runes
Young men may die, old men must.
English Proverb
Ah, Jesus!
Charles V, King of France (1338-1380)
As I lie here on the brink of the eternal
world, I want to tell you
that you need have no fear for the
integrity of those who have the
direction of this great movement. God is
with them. I would gladly
have stayed here a little longer to have
pushed forward the war, and
to have taken part in the special effort
for a hundred thousand souls
just inaugurated by the General, but I
shall hear of their ingathering
as surely, and rejoice in it as fully, in
the country whither I am
going. Good-bye. I will meet you in the
morning.
Catherine Booth (1829-1890)
Doctor, I die hard but I am not afraid to
go.
George Washington (1732-1799)
Earth recedes, heaven opens. I've been
through the gates! Don't call
me back ... if this is death, it's sweet.
Dwight! Irene! I see the
children's faces. [Dwight and Irene were
his dead grandchildren.]
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
Eighty-six years I have served him, and
he has done me no wrong. How
can I blaspheme my King who has saved me?
To his executioners
Saint Polycarp (D. C. 167)
Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah! I
am with the Lord! Glory, ready, go!
-From the scaffold
Charles J. Guiteau (1841-1882)
I am not dying. I am entering into life.
Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
I have been dying for twenty years, now I
am going to live.
James Drummond Burns
I have been everything and everything is
nothing. A little urn will
contain all that remains of one for whom
the whole world was too
little.
Lucius Septimius Severus (146-211)
I have lost a world of time! Had I one
year more, it should be spent
in perusing David's Psalms and Paul's
Epistles. Mind the world less
and God more.
Claudius Salmasius (1588-1653)
I shall hear in heaven.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
I surely must be going now, my strength
sinks so fast. What glory! The
angels are waiting for me!
Thomas Bateman
I will stick to Christ as a burr to a
topcoat.
Katie Luther
I would give worlds, if I had them, that
Age of Reason had not been
published. O Lord, help me! Christ, help
me! O God what have I done to
suffer so much? But there is no God! But
if there should be, what will
become of me hereafter? Stay with me ,
for God's sake! Send even a
child to stay with me, for it is hell to
be alone. If ever the devil
had an agent, I have been that one.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Joy!
Hannah More (1745-1833)
Like as thy arms, Lord Jesus Christ, were
stretched out upon the
cross, even so receive me with the
outstretched arms of thy mercy.
Mary Stuart (1542-1587)
Lord, I am coming as fast as I can.
-From the scaffold
William Laud (1573-1645)
See how pure the sky is, there is not a
single cloud. Don't you see
that God is waiting for me?
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Standing as I do in view of God and
eternity, I realize that
patriotism is not enough. I must have no
hatred or bitterness toward
anyone.
Edith Cavell (1865-1915)
This is the last of earth! I am content.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Turn up the lights; I don't want to go
home in the dark.
O. Henry (1862-1910)
Weep not for me, but for yourselves.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
What a beautiful day!
Emperor of Russia Alexander I (1777-1825)
What is life? It is the flash of a
firefly in the night. It is the
breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It
is the little shadow which
runs across the grass and loses itself in
the sunset.
Crowfoot of the Blackfeet (1821-1890)
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful
adventure in life.
Charles Frohman (1860-1915)
Wonderful, wonderful, this death.
William Etty (1787-1849)
Owe no man any thing, but to love one
another.
Romans 13:8
A man in debt is caught in a net.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Never spend your money before you have
it.
Thomas Jefferson
Small debts are like small shot; they are
rattling on every side,
and can scarcely be escaped without a
wound; great debts are like
cannon, of loud noise but little danger.
Samuel Johnson
Some people use one half their ingenuity
to get into debt, and the
other half to avoid paying it.
George D. Prentice
Having problems may not be so bad after
all. There's a special place for folks who have none ‑ it's called a cemetery.
The easiest way to commit suicide is to
take gas or step on it.
In preaching a funeral sermon, a preacher
made the following remarks, "We have here before us only the shell ‑
the nut is gone."
We are told the wages of sin is death ‑shouldn't
you quit before payday?
Another difference between death and
taxes is that death is frequently painless.
Death and taxes are inevitable, but death
is not a repeater.
One thing about death ‑ it doesn't
get worse every time Congress meets.
A taxpayer resents the fact that death
and taxes don't come in that order!
Nothing is certain in this world except
death, taxes, and teen‑agers.
Perpetual worry will get you to one place
ahead of time ‑ the cemetery.
Alimony is another war debt a lot of husbands
would like to see cancelled.
America may be the land of the free, but
not the debt‑free.
America unquestionably has the highest
standard of living in the world. Too bad we can't afford it.
The man who borrows trouble is always in
debt.
America is rapidly proving to be a place
with two cars in every garage ‑ and none of them paid for.
Most Americans are members of the debt
set.
A new car isn't a barometer of how much
money a fellow has, but it's a pretty good indication of how much he owes.
If it weren't for keeping a budget, a lot
of people wouldn't know how much they owe.
Budgeting is the most orderly way of
going into debt.
The reason business conditions are so
unsettled is because so many accounts are.
Drive carefully! The life you save could
be someone who owes you money.
The most difficult thing imaginable is to
keep clean of debt, dirt, and the devil all at the same time.
One thing America isn't running out of is
debts.
Every year around April 15 Americans have
a rendezvous with debt.
It's comforting to know that when we get
up every morning we are no deeper in debt than we were when we went to bed.
If you don't go into debt these days
you're probably doing something illegal.
Nowadays it seems to take half as long to
get into debt and twice as long to get out.
The trouble with public debt is that
private individuals have to pay for it.
Things bought on convenient terms always
fall due at inconvenient times.
Debt is what you get into if you spend as
much as you tell your friends you earn.
We owe a great deal to our forefathers,
and that's another debt we'll probably never repay‑
Running into debt is no trouble. Running
into creditors is.
The best possible thing to do with a debt
is pay it.
If you think you won't be missed, move
away leaving a few unpaid bills.
Many people have learned to their sorrow
that it's a great deal easier to run into debt than it is to outrun bill
collectors.
In these modern times a man is considered
out of debt when he owes no more but the doctor and dad.
The government debt is so huge the next
generation will have to help pay it off ‑ which explains why a baby
yells when it's born.
They ought to make it as hard to get into
debt as it is to get out of it.
Next to debt, the hardest thing to get
out of is a warm bed on a cold morning.
If you listen to the loan company commercials,
you'll almost believe you can borrow yourself out of debt.
All that many people will have when the
rainy days come are a lot of debts they made when the sun was shining.
Some people use one half of their
ingenuity to get into debt and the other half to avoid paying it.
Debt is like quicksand, and just about as
hard to get out of.
No person can fully and completely
discharge his debt to Almighty God, but surely he can make regular payments on
it.
What you don't owe won't hurt you.
Everybody agrees the huge national debt
should be reduced and hopes some future generation will do it.
College debts are obligations that with
diligence, economy, and stern self‑denial, father will be able to pay.
Every person born in the United States is
endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
Many who are quick to run into debt find
it takes a long time to crawl out.
Debts are about the only thing we can acquire
without money.
It might seem hard to believe, but there
was once a time when being over your head in debt was a catastrophe rather than
an ordinary
condition in life.
Molehills of debt build mountains of
worry.
We had better go easy on piling up the national
debt. With the life span steadily increasing, we may have to pay it ourselves.
Dentists claim the best collector of old
bills is a new toothache.
Some friends stick together until `debt
do them part.'
Never forget a friend ‑ especially
if he owes you anything.
Future generations will be born free,
equal, and in debt.
Debts of gratitude are the most difficult
to collect.
Real happiness is getting a reminder
about a bill you've already paid so you can sit down and write the store a
nasty letter.
A husband seldom worries about the
national debt. What bothers him is the way his wife keeps trying to localize
it.
Yesterday's luxuries are today's debts.
Creditors have a better memory than debtors.
Isn't it funny how some people can
remember a joke, but can't seem to remember an unpaid bill?
Once upon a time it was hard to save
money. Now it's difficult just to stay broke without going into debt.
The younger generation will learn the value
of a dollar when it begins paying off our debts.
About all you can do with money nowadays
is owe it.
Money may not make a person happy, but it
keeps his creditors in a better frame of mind.
Modern political theory seems to hold
that the best way to keep the economy in the pink is to run the government in
the red.
The following is the revised edition of
an American prayer: "Forgive us our debts, O Lord, as we forgive our
international debtors."
As a general rule, prosperity is what
keeps us in debt.
The Reds won't have to bury us if we keep
going deeper in the hole.
A good salesman can talk you to debt.
If you're not in style, the chances are
you're out of debt.
Most people find they can scale the
ladder of success quicker when they're debt‑propelled.
Let's be thankful we don't have to pay
taxes on our debts.
Blessed are the teen‑agers, for
they shall inherit the national debt.
Television sets are three dimensional.
They give you height, width, and debt.
There's always something to be thankful
for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you're not one of your
creditors.
The man who borrows trouble is always in
debt.
The United States is still the land of
opportunity. Where else could you earn enough money to pay the interest on
what you owe?
For a vacation some will go to the
mountains, while others go to the seashore, but most of us will go in the hole.
Every child comes into the world endowed
with liberty, opportunity, and a share of the war debt.
We've had wars to end all wars ‑
why not have one to end all debts?
The only thing you can get without work
is debt.
And there was the poor old man who
worried so much about his debts that the hair began to fall out of his wig.
A clean glove often hides a dirty hand.
A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.
French Proverb
A whitewashed crow soon shows black
again.
Chinese Proverb
Dirty water does not wash clean.
Danish Proverb
Faces we see, hearts we know not.
Spanish Proverb
Half the work that is done in the world
is to make things appear what
they are not.
E. R. Beadle (1812-1879)
He who will sell a blind horse praises
the feet.
German Proverb
Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
French Proverb
It is an awful hour when the first
necessity of hiding anything comes.
The whole life is different thenceforth.
When there are questions to
be feared and eyes to be avoided and
subjects that must not be
touched, then the bloom of life is gone.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Knot in de plank will show through de
whitewash.
American Negro Proverb
O what may a man within him hide, Though
angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The easiest person to deceive is one's
own self.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
The handsomest flower is not the
sweetest.
The kiss of an enemy is full of deceit.
The sun discovers the filth under the
white snow.
There's no getting white flour out of a
coal sack.
To tell a lie might help you to have lunch,
but not to have supper.
Arabian Proverb
We are experts at deceiving others and
ourselves too!
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
When a rogue kisses you, count your
teeth.
Hebrew Proverb
When the fox preaches, look to your
geese.
German Proverb
You can fool some of the people all of
the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you cannot fool all
of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
You fool me once, shame on you. You fool
me twice, shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
You k'n hide de fier, but what you guine
do wid de smoke? [You can
hide the fire, but what are you going to
do with the smoke?]
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
Our fine art of deception that we call
finesse.
Gloria Gaither
Let no man deceive you with vain words.
Ephesians 5:6
We are inclined to believe those whom we
do not know because they
have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so
perfectly that not to
be taken in by them would be an error of
judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
If a man deceives me once, shame on him;
if he deceives me twice,
shame on me.
O what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
Walter Scott
The easiest person to deceive is one's
self.
The surest way to be deceived is to think
one's self more clever
than others.
French proverb
It is double pleasure to deceive the
deceiver.
Jean de la Fontaine
All are not hunters that blow the horn.
All charming people have something to
conceal, usually their total
dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of
dissent, of irreverence, of
an uncompromising insistence that
phoniness is phony and platitudes
are platitudinous.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense
talked about bad men not
looking you in the face. Don't trust that
conventional idea.
Dishonesty will stare honesty out of
countenance, any day in the week,
if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
A decision delayed until it is too late
is not a decision; it's an
evasion.
Anonymous
If I had to sum up in one word what makes
a good manager, I'd say
decisiveness.
Lee Iacocca
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions
is no greater than in
long, drawn-out vacillations, and the
effect of decisiveness itself
"makes things go" and creates
confidence.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
Problems come when the individual tries
to hand over the decision
making to a committee.
Rupert Murdock
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore
more precious, than to be
able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Once a decision was made, I did not worry
about it afterward.
Harry S Truman
He who considers too much will perform
little.
German proverb
I hate to see things done by halves. If
it be right, do it
boldly--if it be wrong leave it undone.
Bernard Gilpin
When possible make the decisions now,
even if action is in the
future. A reviewed decision usually is
better than one reached at the
last moment.
William B. Given, Jr.
Great things are done when men and
mountains meet.
William Blake
Noble deeds that are concealed are most
esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands
still until someone
pushes it.
Anonymous
If I cannot do great things, I can do
small things in a great way.
James F. Clarke
It is not only what we do, but also what
we do not do, for which we
are accountable.
Moliere
No need of words; trust deeds.
Ovid
Kind words can never die, but without
kind deeds they can sound mighty sick.
Those who say they believe in
Christianity and those who practice it are not always the same people.
You always remember a kind deed ‑
particularly if it was yours.
Evil deeds, like fire, can be hidden for
a short time ‑ but the smoke can't.
Small deeds done are better than great
deeds planned.
Some men are known by their deeds;
others, by their mortgages.
Good deeds speak for themselves. The
tongue only interprets their eloquence.
Few people ever get dizzy from doing too
many good turns.
Superior to a kind thought is a kind
word; better than both is a kind deed.
There are a lot of people who never
forget a kind deed ‑ if they did it!
A good deed gets about as much attention
these days as a homely face.
He who does a kind deed should be silent;
he who has received one should shout it from the housetop.
The smallest good deed is better than the
grandest intention.
Some of the world's greatest deeds have
been accomplished by two types of men ‑ those who were smart enough to
know it could be
done, and those too dumb to know it
couldn't.
It is vain to use words when deeds are expected.
To lose is to learn.
Anonymous
We have fought this fight as long, and as
well as we know how. We
have been defeated. For us, as a
Christian people, there is now but
one course to pursue. We must accept the
situation.
Robert E. Lee
I let the American people down, and I
have to carry that burden for
the rest of my life. My political life is
over. I will never again
have an opportunity to serve in any
official position. Maybe I can
give a little advice from time to time.
Richard Nixon
There are some defeats more triumphant
than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
Many things are worse than defeat, and
compromise with evil is one of them.
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits
it.
You are never defeated unless you defeat
yourself.
He took his defeat like a man; he blamed
it on his wife.
The highway of fear is the shortest route
to defeat.
Even the lion must defend himself against
gnats.
The best defense is an offense.
As soon as a man climbs up to a high position,
he must train his
subordinates and trust them. They must
relieve him of all small
matters. He must be set free to think, to
travel, to plan, to see
important customers, to make
improvements, to do all the big jobs of
leadership.
Herbert N. Casson
No man is able of himself to do all
things.
Homer
I leave everything to the young men.
You've got to give youthful
men authority and responsibility if
you're going to build up an
organization. Otherwise you'll always be
the boss yourself and you
won't leave anything behind you.
Amadeo P. Giannini
If you think before you speak, the other
fellow gets in his joke
first.
Ed Howe
Democracy is based upon the conviction that
there are extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The greatest blessing of our democracy is
freedom. But in the last
analysis, our only freedom is the freedom
to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
The worst form of inequality is to try to
make unequal things
equal.
Aristotle
What men value in the world is not
rights, but privileges.
H. L. Mencken
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another
man without that other's
consent.
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is the art and science of
running the circus from the
monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Too many people expect wonders from
democracy, when the most
wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Walter Winchell
The difference between communism and democracy
is ‑ plenty!
Democracy is a wonderful system. It
permits you to vote for a politician, and then sit on the jury that tries him.
A democracy is a form of government that
believes at least part of what you earn belongs to you.
While living in a democracy, you can say
what you think without thinking.
Democracy is a word all politicians use,
and very few seem to understand.
Too many people see democracy as a chance
to push other people around for their own personal benefit.
A democracy is a place where you can say
what you please but don't have to listen unless you want to.
Democracy cannot be safe anywhere until
it is safe everywhere.
A democracy is government that is run by
all the people and run down by some of them.
Democracy would not need so many to
defend it if it had more on whom it could depend.
One of the great blessings about living
in a democracy is that we have complete control over how we pay our taxes ‑
cash, check, or
money order.
A democracy is a country in which
everybody has an equal right to feel superior to the other fellow.
Ours is a democracy where the rich and
the poor are alike ‑ both complain about taxes.
Democracy, like love, can survive almost
any attack ‑ except neglect and indifference.
The most important principle of democracy
is that even a wrong guy has rights.
One of the disadvantages of a democracy
is that the minority has the say and the majority has to pay.
A democracy is a system where a fellow who
didn't vote can spend the rest of the year kicking about the candidate the
other fellows
elected.
I wish I had a dental appointment to
cancel--it always brightens my day.
As a man gets older he suspects that
nature is plotting against him for the benefit of doctors and dentists.
Dentists are often driven to extraction.
When dentists start advertising they'll
probably promise painless commercials.
Many people are so afraid of dentists
they need an anesthetic just to sit in the waiting room.
Dentists claim the best collector of old
bills is a new toothache.
Every time we go to a dentist we get
bored to tears.
Dentistry means drilling, filling, and
billing.
The dentist is one guy who's always ready
to get back to the old grind.
Dentists have more faith in people than
anybody. It's a miracle that more of them don't get their fingers bitten off.
A dentist expects you to answer his
questions after he fills your mouth with everything but the kitchen sink!
Many young men would like to become dentists
but they don't seem to have enough pull.
Wouldn't you say a romance between a dentist
and a manicurist is a tooth‑and‑nail affair?
A dentist always looks down at the mouth.
Members of the dental profession are the
only men on earth who can tell a woman to open or close her mouth and get away
with it.
A dentist is a man who runs a filling
station. He is also a collector of old magazines.
Almost any dentist has more pull than a
politician.
The dentist's favorite marching song is
"The Yanks Are Coming."
When a dentist makes an extraction, you
hope he pulls the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
Nature may have known what she was doing,
but sometimes it looks like she deliberately constructed mankind for the
benefit of doctors and dentists.
You've got a problem when your dentist
tells you that you need a bridge, and you can't pay his toll.
A man's heart is right when he wills what
God wills.
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Desire himself runs out of breath, And
getting, doth but gain his death.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
God will either give you what you ask, or
something far better.
Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843)
If a man could have half his wishes, he
would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
In this world there are only two
tragedies. One is not getting what
one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Man finds it hard to get what he wants
because he does not want the
best; God finds it hard to give because
he would give the best and man
will not take it.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
To want what you want, you must want what
your want leads to.
French Proverb
We would often be sorry if our wishes
were gratified.
Aesop (Fl. C. 550 B.C.)
The heavens are as deep as our
aspirations are high.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
The true worth of a man is to be measured
by the objects he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)
There is not a heart but has its moments
of longing, yearning for
something better; nobler; holier than it
knows now.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
We are not to make the ideas of
contentment and aspiration quarrel,
for God made them fast friends. A man may
aspire and yet be quite
content until it is time to rise; and
both flying and resting are but
parts of one contentment. The very fruit
of the gospel is aspiration.
It is to the heart what spring is to the
earth, making every root, and
bud, and bough desire to be more.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
It is much easier to suppress a first
desire than to satisfy those
that follow.
La Rochefoucauld
On the brink of being satiated, desire
still appears infinite.
Jean Rostand
At the edge of despair dawns a clarity in
which one is almost happy.
Jean Anouilh (1910- )
Beware of desperate steps; the darkest
day,
Lived till tomorrow, will have passed
away.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
But what am I? An infant crying in the
night;
An infant crying for the light,
And with no language but a cry.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Despair doubles our strength.
English Proverb
Despair is a frightful queerness ... that
there is no way out, or
around, or through the impasse. It is the
end.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Despair is an evil counselor.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Despair is the damp of hell as joy is the
serenity of heaven.
John Donne (1572-1631)
Despair itself, if it goes on long enough,
can become a kind of
sanctuary in which one settles down and
feels at ease.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)
God be praised, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in
despair!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
God harden me against myself,
This coward with pathetic voice
Who craves for ease, and rest, and joys.
Myself, arch-traitor to myself
My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe,
My clog whatever road I go.
Yet One there is can curb myself,
Can roll the strangling load from me,
Break off the yoke and set me free.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
He that despairs degrades God.
Owen Felltham (C. 1602-1668)
He that is fallen cannot help him that is
down.
He who despairs wants love and faith, for
faith, hope, and love are
three torches which blend their life
together, nor does the one shine
without the other.
Pietro Metastasis (1698-1782)
I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf
O Jesus, quicken me.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
I turned to speak to God
About the world's despair;
But to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn't there.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
I would say to my soul, O my soul, this
is not the place of despair;
this is not the time to despair in. As
long as mine eyes can find a
promise in the Bible, as long as there is
a moment left me of breath
or life in this world, so long will I
wait or look for mercy, so long
will I fight against unbelief and
despair.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
If at any time you feel disposed again to
say, "It is enough," and
that you can bear of the burden of life
no longer, do as Elijah did,
flee into the silence of solitude, and
sit under-not the juniper
tree-but under that tree whereon the
incarnate Son of God was made a
curse for you.
Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher (1796-1868)
If you get gloomy, just take an hour off
and sit and think how much
better this world is than hell. Of
course, it won't cheer you up much
if you expect to go there.
Don Marquis (1878-1937)
If you should temporarily lose your sense
of well-being, don't be too
quick to despair. With humility and
patience, wait for God who is able
to give you back even more comfort. There
is nothing novel about this
to those who are familiar with God's
ways. The great saints and
ancient prophets frequently experienced
the alternation of up and
down, joy and sorrow.
Thomas À Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
In a really dark night of the soul it is
always three in the morning,
day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
It is impossible for that man to despair
who remembers that his Helper
is omnipotent.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
It is when we are out of options that we
are most ready for God's
surprises.
Max L. Lucado (1955- )
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Life is a bridge of groans across a
stream of tears.
Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
Life is not as idle ore
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipped in baths of hissing tears,
And battered with the shocks of doom
To shape and use.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Lord, it is dark! Lord, are you there in
my darkness? Where are you,
Lord? Do you love me still? I haven't
wearied you? Lord, answer me!
Answer! It is so dark!
Michel Quoist (1921- )
Never despair, but if you do, work on in
despair.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Never fear shadows. They simply mean
there's a light shining
somewhere.
Ruth E. Renkel
O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
O man, cleave close to God and mean but
him alone,
Then agony and toil a paradise become.
Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)
Only those who see themselves as utterly
destitute can fully
appreciate the grace of God.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Play it down and pray it up.
Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
Surrendering to despair is man's favorite
pastime. God offers a better
plan, but it takes effort to grab it and
faith to claim it.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
"The dark night of the soul" is
not something bad or destructive. On
the contrary it is an experience to be
welcomed as a sick person might
welcome a surgery that promises health
and well-being. The purpose of
the darkness is not to punish or afflict
us. It is to set us free.
Richard J. Foster (1942- )
The lives that are getting stronger are
lives in the desert,
deep-rooted in God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet
desperation.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
There is a weeping in the world, as
though our dear Lord were dead;
and the leaden shadows that descend on us
oppress us with the weight
of the tomb.
Else Lasker-Schuler (1876-1945)
What is this darkness? What is its name?
Call it an aptitude for
sensitivity. Call it a rich sensitivity which
will make you whole.
Call it your potential for vulnerability.
Meister Eckhart (C. 1260-C. 1327)
When a man gets to despair, he knows that
all his thinking will never
get him out, he will only get out by the
sheer creative effort of God;
consequently, he is in the right attitude
to receive from God that
which he cannot gain for himself.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
When you get into a tight place and
everything goes against you, 'til
it seems you could not hold on a minute
longer, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time that
the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
When you get to the end of your rope, tie
a knot and hang on.
Who will not grieve when deprived of
hope?
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
There is no vulture like despair.
Lord Lansdowne
Abide with me-fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens: Lord, with me
abide;
When other helpers fail, and comforts
flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
Cheer up-only a dentist has to look down
in the mouth.
Cloudless days are fine, but remember:
some pottery gets pretty
fragile sitting in the sun day after day
after day.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
Darkness is more productive of sublime
ideas than light.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Don't brood: you're a human being, not a
hen.
Every man has a rainy corner in his life.
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825)
Every mile is two in winter.
Give no place to despondency. God's
designs regarding you, and his
methods of bringing about these designs,
are infinitely wise.
Madame Jeanne Marie de La Mothe Guyon
(1648-1717)
God sends nothing but what can be borne.
Italian Proverb
If a person at the time of these
darknesses observes closely, he will
see clearly how little the appetites and
faculties are distracted with
useless and harmful things and how secure
he is from vainglory, from
pride and presumption, from an empty and
false joy, and from many
other evils. By walking in darkness the
soul not only avoids going
astray but advances rapidly, because it
thus gains the virtues.
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
If there be a hell upon earth it is to be
found in a melancholy man's
heart.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
It takes both the rain and the sunshine
to make a rainbow.
Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling
gloom;
Lead thou me on.
The night is dark, and I am far from
home;
Lead thou me on.
Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene-one step enough for me.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Most of the shadows of this life are
caused by standing in one's own
sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Night, you are for a man more nourishing
than bread and wine.
Charles Péguy (1873-1914)
O guiding night! O night more lovely than
the dawn!
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Only eyes washed by tears can see
clearly.
Louis L. Mann
Recognize the dark night for what it is.
Be grateful that God is
lovingly drawing you away from every
distraction so that you can see
him. Rather than chafing and fighting,
become still and wait.
Richard J. Foster (1942- )
Reconcile yourself to wait in this
darkness as long as is necessary,
but still go on longing after him whom
you love. For if you are to
feel him in this life, it must always be
in this cloud in this
darkness.
The Cloud of Unknowing (1370)
The best cure for an empty day or a
longing heart is to find people
who need you. Look, the world is full of
them.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to
try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The stars are constantly shining, but
often we do not see them until
the dark hours.
Earl Riney
There is a melancholy that stems from
greatness of mind.
Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
(1741-1794)
They feared as they entered the cloud. Is
there anyone save Jesus only
in your cloud? If so, it will get darker;
you must get into the place
where there is no one save Jesus only.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Those who are the happiest are not
necessarily those for whom life has
been easiest. Emotional stability is an
attitude. It is refusing to
yield to depression and fear, even when
black clouds float overhead.
It is improving that which can be
improved and accepting that which is
inevitable.
James C. Dobson (1936- )
We ought to praise God even when we do
not feel like it. Praising him
takes away the blues and restores us to
normal.
Harold Lindsell (1913- )
When you see your appetites darkened,
your inclinations dry and
constrained, your faculties incapacitated
for any interior exercise,
do not be afflicted; think of this as a
grace ... God takes you by the
hand and guides you in darkness, as
though you were blind, along a way
and to a place you know not. You would
never have succeeded in
reaching this place no matter how good
your eyes and your feet.
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers
which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
What are the thoughts of the canvas on
which a masterpiece is being
painted? "I am being soiled,
brutally treated and concealed from
view." Thus men grumble at their
destiny, however fair.
Jean Cocteau
One meets his destiny often in the road
he takes to avoid it.
French proverb
Paying attention to simple little things
that most men neglect
makes a few men rich.
Henry Ford, Sr.
Every good and excellent thing stands
moment by moment on the
razor's edge of danger and must be fought
for.
Anonymous
Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears
you out--it's the grain of
sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
Sink or swim.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you.
James 4:7
Every devil has not a cloven hoof.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom
he may devour.
1 Peter 5:8
The devil's boots don't creak.
Scottish proverb
One had as good eat the devil as the
broth he's boiled on.
The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
The devil catches most souls in a golden
net.
German proverb
He that is afraid of the devil does not
grow rich.
Italian proverb
Talk of the devil and he'll appear.
Latin proverb
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made
good under pressure.
A diamond is valuable tho' it lie on a
dunghill.
The best throw of the dice is to throw
them away.
The nicest thing about dictating a letter
is that you can use words
you don't know how to spell.
Never say die.
I went on a fourteen-day diet, but all I
lost was two weeks.
Minutes at the table don't put on weight--it's
the seconds.
My doctor has the greatest diet of all:
eat all you want, chew--but
don't swallow.
If you cheat on your diet--you gain in
the end.
The second day of a diet is always easier
than the first--by the
second day you're off it.
I told the doctor I get very tired when I
go on a diet. So he gave
me pep pills. You know what happened? I
ate faster.
The one thing harder than sticking to a
diet is keeping quiet about it.
Dieting is a way of starving to death so
you can live longer.
Losing weight is a triumph of mind over
platter.
I'm on a new tranquilizer diet--I haven't
lost an ounce, but I
don't care.
Advice to men over fifty: Keep an open
mind and a closed refrigerator.
Too many Americans go in for
weightlifting with the wrong equipment ‑ a knife and fork.
Americans have more food to eat than any
other people on earth, and more diets to keep them from eating it.
Childhood is that wonderful period when
all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
When you see a man wearing a baggy suit,
either he has a great diet or a terrible tailor.
You can't reduce by talking about it. You
must keep your mouth shut.
Diets are so strict nowadays that the only
thing dieters are allowed to have is hunger pains.
One of the best reasons for going on a
diet is the money you'll save on food.
There's no better diet than eating only
what you can afford.
The odds against a diet succeeding are
three to one ‑ knife, fork, and spoon.
With all the diets we hear and read
about, it appears there are more problem eaters than problem drinkers.
There's a new diet that includes
tranquilizers. You don't lose much weight ‑ but you really don't care.
One thing you can be sure of ‑
there will always be more people going on a diet tomorrow than those on a diet
today.
People who diet go to great lengths to
avoid great widths.
Dieting is the time when the days seem
longer and the meals seem shorter.
When you go on a diet the first thing
you're apt to lose is your sense of humor.
A diet helps people gain weight slower.
There's one thing to be said for a diet ‑
it certainly improves the appetite.
A husband in New Mexico explained why his
wife went on a diet: "She went from a size ten to a size tent.
Nowadays almost everybody is on a diet ‑due
to high prices or high cholesterol.
It's strange how people always announce
they're going on a diet after a big meal.
Most kids think a balanced diet is a
hamburger in each hand.
Many with the strength to diet lack the
strength to keep it quiet.
It's time to go on a diet when you notice
you're puffing going down stairs.
The one thing rougher than being on a
diet is listening to someone else who is.
Dieting is merely a matter of keeping
your mouth shut at the right time ‑ such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Everybody is so diet‑conscious
these days that if someone says you're not half the man you used to be, it's
considered a compliment.
Many people are on the new "see‑food"
diet ‑ you see food, but you don't eat it.
Any dieter will tell you that the one
thing worse than a menu offering nothing you like is a menu offering everything
you like.
A nutritionist in India has the perfect
new diet food. You open a can, and there's nothing in it.
A diet is something you went off
yesterday ‑or expect to start tomorrow.
Anybody who has ever gone on a diet knows
which meal is the hardest one to skip ‑ the next one.
A Kansas dieter says, "I watch
everything I eat, and wish I could eat everything I watch."
A diet is what you keep putting off while
you keep putting on.
Those on a diet are the only people who
gain from losing.
The first few days of a thousand‑calorie
diet are like a bunion ‑ it doesn't show, but you can't forget it.
Diet tip: To indulge is to bulge.
When someone says he diets religiously,
he probably means he doesn't eat anything while in church.
There's a new diet that will reduce
weight like nothing else. It's called the high price of food.
When you go on a diet the first thing you
lose is your temper.
No people feel more close and more
friendly than those who are on the same diet.
Your diet should be a very simple matter ‑if
the food tastes good, spit it out.
A diet is something that will take the
starch out of you.
Some women diet to keep their girlish
figure; others, to keep their boyish husbands.
Being on a diet requires great won't
power.
The trouble with dieting is that your
diet calls for less food while your appetite calls for more.
Probably nothing in the world arouses
more false hopes than the first six hours of a diet.
The best way to lose weight is to eat all
you want of everything you don't like.
People who can't stay on a diet do the
next best thing ‑ they stay off the scales.
According to science, the second day of a
diet is easiest. By that time you are off it.
Mother and daughter have a tougher time
keeping their figures straight than a public accountant.
Most of us don't know what poor losers we
are until we try dieting.
One thing about those thirty‑day
diets ‑ by the time you go back to eating you're shocked at the price of
food.
The ideal diet is expressed in four
words: "No more, thank you."
All that some people lose when they buy a
book on dieting is the price of the book.
Destiny shapes our ends, but calorie
intake is what shapes our middle.
The worst part of a diet isn't watching
your food ‑ it's watching everybody else's.
A dieter recently quit his onion diet. He
lost fifteen pounds and thirty‑five friends in sixteen days.
Said a banker's son, "My pop went on
a diet; there was too much collateral in his blood."
You have to have patience on a diet ‑
especially if it's your wife who's on it.
Successful dieting requires that you do the
opposite of baseball players ‑ stay away from the plate!
When some people go on a diet they don't
lose anything except a lot of time.
A diet is the only thing that shows a
gain by showing a loss.
A diet is like a ball game. You're the umpire
behind the "home plate."
The best exercise is to exercise
discretion at the dining table.
Just buying all those expensive diet
foods can be very flattening.
If today's food prices haven't driven you
to dieting, nothing will.
These days there are two kinds of people
cutting down on food ‑ those who can't afford the calories, and those
who can't afford the
prices.
Nothing makes food less fattening than
being too expensive.
The way food prices are going up, more
people are being put on diets by their accountants than by their doctors.
Scientists tell us we are what we eat.
Nuts must be more common in diets than we thought.
We have more food in the United States
per person than any other country ‑ and more diets to keep us from eating
it.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you
must tone down your middle.
Nothing gives you more false hope than
the first day of a diet.
A man hopes that his lean years are
behind him; a woman, that hers are ahead.
An Illinois man complained about
inflation, "Last year it was my doctor who put me on a diet. This year it
was my accountant."
A great invention for dieters would be a
refrigerator that weighs you every time you open the door.
Overweight people don't like to hear four‑letter
words ‑ such as diet.
An overweight woman was told by her
doctor, "Under my new diet you can eat anything you like. Now, here's a
list of what you're
going to like."
It's funny how people on a diet are never
reduced to silence.
Wouldn't it be nice if two weeks on
vacation seemed to last as long as two weeks on a diet?
The old‑fashioned wife is one who
can stay on a budget and a diet.
It isn't a woman's will that makes her
diet ‑it's her ego.
The modern woman seems to go through
three stages ‑ her first crush, her first divorce, and her first diet.
People who are forced to eat their own
words should find it a good diet to reduce their big mouths.
Honest differences are often a healthy
sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Troubles and weeds thrive on lack of
attention.
Many people are having trouble with their
new cars. The engine won't start and the payments won't stop.
Most of us don't put our best foot
forward until we get the other one in hot water.
We count our blessings on our fingers and
our miseries on an adding machine.
The secret of business is to count your
blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
The American businessman has a problem: if
he comes up with something new the Russians invent it six months later and the
Japanese make it cheaper.
A smooth sea never made a skillful
mariner.
English proverb
It is difficulties which show what men
are.
Epictetus
There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
All things are difficult before they are
easy.
Thomas Fuller
I sometimes suspect that half our
difficulties are imaginary and
that if we kept quiet about them they
would disappear.
Robert Lynd
Difficulty is the daughter of idleness.
What is worth while must needs be
difficult.
Latin proverb
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not
discourage. The human spirit
is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Remember the steam kettle! Though up to
its neck in hot water, it continues to sing.
It's great to have your children home
from school. It takes your mind off your other troubles.
A father's biggest difficulty at
Christmas time is convincing the children that he is Santa Claus and his wife
that he is not.
Sign on a church bulletin board in
Denver: "If you have troubles, come in and tell us about them. If you have
none, come in and tell us
how you do it."
It is usually not so much the greatness
of our troubles as the littleness of our spirit which causes us to complain.
Have you ever noticed how extremely difficult
it is for a person to keep his mind open and his mouth shut at the same time?
In youth we run into difficulties. In old
age difficulties run into us.
Tackle any difficulty at first sight, for
the longer you gaze at it the bigger it grows.
The most difficult thing to open is a
closed mind.
One of the most difficult mountains for
people to climb is the one they make out of a molehill.
The difficulties of life are intended to
make us better ‑ not bitter.
There are two ways of meeting
difficulties: alter the difficulties, or alter yourself to meet them.
Some people would have us believe that
there's no difficulty in the world that cannot be overcome. How about trying to
squeeze
toothpaste back into the tube?
The best way out of difficulty is through
it.
Education enables a person to get into
more intelligent trouble.
Efficiency experts can cope with
everybody's troubles, but not with their own.
When you feel yourself turning green with
envy, you're ripe for trouble.
The school of experience never changes;
it always issues its diplomas on the roughest grade of sandpaper.
All men need a faith that will not shrink
when washed in the waters of affliction and adversity.
How would a person ever know whether his
faith was weak or strong unless it has been tried and tested?
There are some flowers that will not
yield their perfume till they are bruised.
Having no food to eat will take your mind
off other troubles.
Don't make your friends a dumping ground
for your troubles.
It's a pity that happiness isn't as easy
to find as trouble.
The secret of happiness is to count your
blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
One thing is certain. If you can laugh at
your troubles, you will always have something to laugh at.
Those who can laugh at trouble must be
having a hilarious time nowadays.
A lie is a coward's way of getting out of
trouble.
Despite all the pain and trouble, life is
still better than any alternative.
The triumphal song of life would lose its
melody without its minor keys.
The ladder of life is full of splinters,
but you never realize it until you begin to slide down.
Liquor is nothing but trouble in liquid
form.
Have you noticed that an optimist is
always able to see the bright side of other people's troubles?
Patience is the greatest of all shock
absorbers. About the only thing you can get in a hurry is trouble.
It's easy to have a balanced personality.
Just forget your troubles as easily as you do your blessings.
A person's most fervent prayers are not
said when he is on his knees, but when he is flat on his back.
He who does not pray when the sun shines
will not know how to pray when the clouds come.
Prayer can keep us out of trouble a lot
easier than it can get us out of trouble.
The man who smiles in the face of trouble
is either brave or covered by insurance.
Few people travel the road to success
without a puncture or two.
Three cases where supply exceeds demand
are: taxes, trouble, and advice.
The worst car trouble is when the engine
won't start and the payments won't stop.
One thing you are never asked to return
is borrowed trouble.
Going out to meet trouble is one of
life's shortest walks.
There aren't many troubles in the world
more alarming than an empty stomach.
Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's
easier to pick up than to drop.
Invite trouble and it will usually come.
If nobody knows the trouble you've had,
you don't live in a small town.
There are few troubles that can't be
relieved by an understanding friend, a good night's sleep, or a steak dinner.
You can save yourself a lot of trouble by
not borrowing any.
Men's troubles are largely due to three
things: women, money ‑ and both.
Another thing about trouble ‑ you
don't have to get rid of the old ones to make room for the new ones.
It's much easier to borrow trouble than
to give it away.
Most of modern man's troubles come from
the fact that he has too much time on his hands and not enough on his knees.
Nothing costs more than buying trouble.
It's a lot easier to fall into trouble
than it is to work out of it.
The person who is always looking for
trouble may someday discover that he's it.
There's a lot of trouble in this country
nowadays, and it seems everybody is trying to fix the blame instead of the
trouble.
Anytime you try to borrow trouble, you
soon learn that your credit is in good standing.
Many people these days are jumping into
trouble mouth first.
You don't know what trouble is until your
kids reach the age of consent, dissent, and resent ‑ all at the same
time.
Don't bother people by telling them about
your troubles. Half of them don't care, and the other half figure you probably
had it coming
to you.
Don't advertise your troubles ‑
people are already oversupplied.
Be happy when your troubles are at their
worst ‑ it means that anything that happens will be an improvement.
Tackle your troubles one day at a time;
there will always be enough to last the rest of your life.
Examine your troubles and you'll probably
find your name stamped on them as the manufacturer.
There's no such thing as a little trouble
‑especially if you're the one that's in it.
To really know a man, observe his
behavior with a woman, a flat tire, and a child.
"Double trouble" is a mother‑in‑law
with a twin sister.
A lot of trouble is caused by combining a
narrow mind with a wide mouth.
Borrowing trouble is as easy as pie, but
the carrying charge runs pretty high.
Never meet trouble halfway. It will
gladly make the entire trip.
Almost everything comes ready‑mixed
these days ‑ including trouble.
The guy whose troubles are all behind him
is probably a school bus driver.
Say what you will about trouble; it
always gives you something to talk about.
If we could only forget our troubles as
easily as we do our blessings!
Troubles are like babies ‑ the more
you nurse them, the larger they grow.
Trouble is usually produced by those who
produce nothing else.
Never bear more than one kind of trouble
at a time. Some people bear three: all they have now, all they have had, and
all they expect
to have.
About the only thing you're sure to get
by asking for it is trouble.
Much trouble is caused by our yearnings
getting ahead of our earnings.
Why does trouble always come at the wrong
time?
This world would be different if people
were required to have a license to hunt for trouble.
Half our troubles come in wanting our
way; the other half comes in getting it.
The fellow who is always telling us about
his troubles is of some use ‑ he keeps us from thinking about our own.
You can't keep trouble from coming, but
you needn't give it a chair to sit in.
Before you begin to tell your troubles to
another person, ask yourself if you would like to listen to his.
We'll be in trouble as long as we pay the
best professors less than the worst football coach.
Don't borrow trouble. Be patient and
you'll soon have some of your own.
When you brood over your troubles you are
certain to hatch despair.
People would have very little trouble if
it weren't for other people.
A good way to forget your troubles is to
help others out of theirs.
Most of us listen to the troubles of
other people just for the chance to get back at them with our own.
If your troubles are deep‑seated
and longstanding, try kneeling.
One trouble with trouble is that it
usually starts out like fun.
The only thing you can get in a hurry is
trouble.
When the commencement orator tells the graduating
class that the world is their oyster, he should also explain the difficulty of
cracking the shell.
Troubles teach you two things: how many
friends you have, and how many people are waiting to catch you bent over.
The way some people go out of their way
to look for trouble, you'd think trading stamps came with it.
The best way to forget all about your
troubles is to wear a pair of tight shoes.
The easiest way to get into trouble is to
be in the right place at the wrong time.
Don't bore your friends with your
troubles. Tell them to your enemies, who will be delighted to hear about them.
If you would like to know who is
responsible for most of your troubles, take a look in the mirror.
To avoid trouble and insure safety,
breathe through your nose. It keeps your mouth shut.
One thing is certain ‑ if you laugh
at your troubles you will always have something to laugh at.
Most of our troubles are caused by too
much done in the head and not enough in the back.
In a small town people will sympathize
with you in trouble, and if you don't have any they will hunt some up for you.
When you look for trouble, you don't need
a search warrant.
Trouble is like muddy water: be patient,
don't stir it, and it will soon clear up.
Maybe the Lord allows some people to get
into trouble because that is the only time they ever think of Him.
The only people who enjoy hearing your
troubles are lawyers, and they're paid for it.
The person who persists in courting
trouble will soon find himself married to it.
If you think you have trouble supporting
a wife, just try not supporting her!
Everybody shuns trouble unless it comes
to him disguised as money.
If half of your wishes came true, your
troubles would probably double.
If you could kick the person who is most
responsible for your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for a week.
Looking for trouble is wasted energy. All
a guy has to do is to sit down and wait.
Responsibility for a considerable portion
of the world's troubles rests upon two people of the past. One of them invented
credit; the
other, taxes.
Did you ever feel yourself turning green
with envy? If so, you were ripe for trouble.
May your troubles in the coming New Year
be as short‑lived as your resolutions.
Those who court trouble will never come
out with a hung jury.
Why does it always seem that our
blessings can be counted on our fingers, while we need a computer to count our
troubles.
God is not only a present help in time of
trouble, but also a great help in keeping us out of trouble.
When you're up to your ears in trouble,
try using the part that isn't submerged.
Trouble causes some people to go to
pieces; others to come to their senses.
There are a lot of people who get into
trouble trying to keep up with the Joneses ‑ especially the Dow Joneses.
It's not the people who tell all they
know who start trouble ‑ it's the people who tell more than they know.
When you help the fellow who's in
trouble, he'll never forget you when he's in trouble again.
A cool head may sometimes keep a man out
of trouble, but more often it's cold feet.
People always get into trouble when they
think they can handle their lives without God.
One of your troubles is that it took six
days to create the world and we're trying to run it on a five‑day basis.
Imaginary troubles become real by telling
them too often.
Of all the troubles great or small, the
greatest are those that don't happen at all.
The man who borrows trouble is always in
debt.
A lot of trouble arises from workers who
don't think, and from thinkers who don't work.
Most of our troubles arise from loafing
when we should be working, and talking when we should be listening.
What a different world this would be if
people would only magnify their blessings the way they do their troubles.
Things are pretty well evened up in this
world. Other people's troubles are not as bad as ours, but their children are a
lot worse.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before
it falls due.
There is a healthful hardiness about real
dignity that never dreads
contact and communion with others,
however humble.
Washington Irving
The church is paralyzed with timidity and
gradually dying of dignity.
Anybody who stands on his dignity isn't
going anywhere.
Dignity is often a mask we wear to hide
our ignorance.
Many a man labors under the delusion that
standing on one's dignity will enable him to see over the heads of the crowd.
A man may get a reputation for dignity
when he's merely suffering from a stiff neck.
Dignity is one thing that cannot be
preserved in alcohol.
It has been said that dignity is the
ability to hold back from the tongue that which never should have been on the
mind in the first
place.
The fellow who stands on his dignity will
find he has poor footing.
Between the devil and the deep sea.
Between the hammer and the anvil.
Latin proverb
Avoid the last minute rush: do it
yesterday.
Be first in the field and the last to the
couch.
Chinese Proverb
Doing things by halves is worthless. It
may be the other half that
counts.
Earnestness commands the respect of
mankind. A wavering, vacillating,
dead-and-alive Christian does not get the
respect of the church or of
the world.
John Hall (1829- )
Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the
back until he starts
working.
Everything requires effort: the only
thing you can achieve without it
is failure.
God wishes each of us to work as hard as
we can, holding nothing back
but giving ourselves to the utmost, and
when we can do no more, that
is the moment when the hand of divine
providence is stretched out to
us and takes over.
Don Orione (1872-1940)
I think and think for months, for years;
ninety-nine times the
conclusion is false, but the hundredth
time I am right.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If a man has good corn, or wood, or
boards, or pigs, to sell, or can
make better chairs or knives, crucibles,
or church organs than anybody
else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten
road to his house, though it
be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper,
he should sweep streets even
as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven
composed music, or Shakespeare
wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so
well that all the hosts of
heaven and earth will pause to say:
"Here lived a great streetsweeper
who did his job well."
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
If God is diligent, surely we ought to be
diligent in doing our duty
to him. Think how patient and how
diligent God has been with us!
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
In doing what we ought we deserve no
praise.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Keep your heart with all diligence and
God will look after the
universe.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Make hay while the sun shines.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Make the most of yourself for that is all
there is to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Turkish Proverb
No one ever attains very eminent success
by simply doing what is
required of him; it is the amount and
excellence of what is over and
above the required that determines the
greatness of ultimate
distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams (1835-1902)
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave
others to talk of you as
they please.
Pythagoras (C. 580-C. 500 B.C.)
Take a lesson from the clock; it passes
the time by keeping its hands
busy.
Take care of the minutes and the hours
will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
The average person puts only 25 percent
of his energy and ability into
his work.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
The leading rule for a man of every
calling is diligence; never put
off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Through every rift of discovery some
seeming anomaly drops out of the
darkness, and falls, a golden link into
the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880)
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also
work for it.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
Who guards his post, no matter where,
Believing God must need him there,
Although but lowly toil it be,
Has risen to nobility.
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
The diligent hand maketh rich.
The diligent spinner has a large shift.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
Few things are impossible to diligence
and skill. . . . Great works
are performed, not by strength, but
perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
It isn't so much what's on the table that
matters as what's on the chairs.
W. S. Gilbert
A diplomat is a man who remembers a
woman's birthday and forgets
her age.
The principle of give and take is the
principle of diplomacy--give
one and take ten.
Mark Twain
A diplomat is a man who can convince his
wife she looks vulgar in
diamonds--and fat in a mink coat.
Diplomacy is simply letting the other
fellow have his way.
Being diplomatic is telling your boss he
has an open mind instead of telling him he has a hole in the head.
Diplomacy is the art of taking sides
without anyone knowing it.
Secret diplomacy is never secret and
seldom diplomatic.
Diplomacy is the art of making others
believe that you believe what you don't believe.
Diplomacy is simply saying nothing
nicely.
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest
things in the nicest way.
Diplomacy is convincing a man he's a liar
without actually saying so.
Diplomacy couldn't prevent the last war,
but
it usually does a good job of preventing
the peace.
Diplomacy is the art of saying things in
such a way that nobody knows exactly what you mean.
A smile is the magic language of
diplomacy that even a baby understands.
A diplomatic husband said to his wife,
"How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any
older?"
When a diplomat lays his cards on the
table, he usually has another deck up his sleeve.
A diplomat is the person who says,
"I will take the matter under advisement," instead of saying no.
Diplomats are frequently decorated in
European countries. We'd like to crown some of ours here in this country.
A diplomat doesn't think it's necessary
to understand anything in order to argue about it.
When two diplomats shake hands we aren't
sure whether it's friendship or time for the fight to start.
A diplomat is usually a wealthy person assigned
to meddle in other people's business.
It's difficult for a diplomat to smoke the
pipe of peace while he has his foot in his mouth.
If you can pat a guy on the head when you
feel like bashing it in, you're a diplomat.
A diplomat can juggle a hot potato long
enough for it to become a cold issue.
When a conference of diplomats announce
they have "agreed in principle," it means nothing has been done.
A diplomat is a man who can make his wife
believe she would look fat in a fur coat.
There is something wrong in international
relations when a diplomat is called courageous if he speaks the truth.
A diplomat remembers a lady's birthday
but forgets her age.
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps;
when he says perhaps, he means no; and when he says no, he is no diplomat.
A diplomat can keep his shirt on while
getting something off his chest.
An experienced diplomat is one who can
pronounce the names of all the countries in the world that are mad at us.
A diplomat is a parent with two boys on
different Little League teams.
It is only on matters of great principle
that a diplomat lies with a clear conscience.
A diplomat is usually an old worn‑out
politician who, when he's being run out of town, can make it look like he's
leading a parade.
A diplomat is one who can put his cards
on the table without showing his hand.
A foolish man tells a woman to stop
talking so much, but a tactful man tells her that her mouth is extremely
beautiful when her lips are
closed.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart;
and lean not unto thine own
understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct
thy paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
The safest way to disagree with your wife
is very quietly.
It's better to disagree than agree and
all be wrong.
One of the things we need to realize is
that people can disagree with us without being crazy, rude, crude, or crooked.
The only way to settle a disagreement is
on the basis of what's right, not who's right.
The most foolhardy way to disagree with
your wife is out loud.
Everybody claims they're being logical,
especially when they're in complete disagreement.
It's annoying when folks disagree with
you ‑especially when they're right.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he
shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
Disappointment, parent of despair.
John Keats (1795-1821)
Disappointments that come not by our own fault,
they are the trials or
corrections of heaven; and it is our own
fault if they prove not to
our advantage.
William Penn (1644-1718)
Every cloud has a silver lining.
English Proverb
Have some of your carefully created
castles been washed away? Mine
have. Several times along my life's
journey, I had nowhere to turn
except into my heavenly Father's arms.
There I remained quiet, soaking
up his love for as long as I needed. Then
I saw his hand begin a new
creation for my life, a new direction, a
new service for him and his
kingdom. Waves need not always destroy.
We must allow our heavenly
Father to use them to redirect our lives.
Jean Otto
If you expect perfection from people,
your whole life is a series of
disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
If, on the contrary, you
pitch your expectations low, taking folks
as the inefficient creatures
which they are, you are frequently
surprised by having them perform
better than you had hoped.
Bruce Fairfield Barton (1886-1967)
Out of every disappointment there is
treasure. Satan whispers, "All is
lost." God says, "Much can be
gained."
Frances J. Roberts
There are no disappointments to those
whose wills are buried in the
will of God.
Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
When life becomes all snarled up, offer
it to our Lord and let him
untie the knots.
Richardson Wright (1885- )
Nothing is so good as it seems
beforehand.
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Boyle Roche
Too many people miss the silver lining
because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Scitter
Some of the most disappointed people in
the world are those who get what is coming to them.
Just about the time we think we can make
both ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
When we get what we want, we are always
disappointed to find out it was not what we wanted.
Disappointments should be cremated, not
embalmed.
Nothing worthwhile is achieved without patience,
labor, and disappointment.
Few people travel the road to success
without a puncture or two.
Many Americans are in favor of disarmament
‑ especially if it starts with those noisy "Westerns" on TV.
The first step in disarmament is to get
nations to remove the chips from their shoulders.
Nations could safely lose their arms if
statesmen wouldn't lose their heads.
Each nation seems to favor disarmament
for all other nations.
If the disarmament conference wants quick
results, it ought to meet in a muddy trench.
If disarmament doesn't make us love one
another, it will at least make it safer to hate one another.
The next disarmament conference might be
a great success if the delegates were representative taxpayers.
Friendship is the only cement that will
hold the world together.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune
to ourselves, and good
fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
Radio news is bearable. This is due to
the fact that while the news
is being broadcast the disc jockey is not
allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz
I cannot spare the luxury of believing
that all things beautiful are
what they seem.
Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
Beware of allowing the discernment of
wrong in another to blind you to
the fact that you are what you are by the
grace of God .
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Discernment is God's call to
intercession, never to faultfinding.
Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)
Don't pour away the water you are
travelling with because of a mirage.
Arabian Proverb
He who wants to know people should study
their excuses.
Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)
See not evil in others and good in
yourself, but the good in the other
and the failings in yourself.
The Berdichever Rabbi (1740-1809)
Those who are in the heavenly places see
God's counsels in what to the
wisdom of the world is arrogant
stupidity.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Where the river is deepest, it makes the
least noise.
Italian Proverb
You must look into people as well as at
them.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Let us believe neither half of the good
people tell us of ourselves,
nor half the evil they say of others.
J. P. Senn
The great masses of the people ... will
more easily fall victims to a
great lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
The most positive men are the most naive.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
To be naive helps one go through life
very smoothly.
To be naive is the man's weakness, but
the child's strength.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
When people are bewildered, they tend to
become gullible.
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
You risk just as much in being naive as
in being suspicious.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
"I will make the place of my feet
glorious"-among the poor, the
devil-possessed, the mean, the decrepit,
the selfish, the sinful, the
misunderstood-that is where Jesus went,
and that is exactly where he
will take you if you are his disciple.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
"It is enough for the disciple that
he be as his Master." At first
sight this looks like an enormous honor:
to be "as his Master" is
marvelous glory-is it? Look at Jesus as
he was when he was here, it
was anything but glory. He was easily
ignorable, saving to those who
knew him intimately; to the majority of
men he was "as a root out of a
dry ground." For thirty years he was
obscure, then for three years he
went through popularity, scandal, and
hatred; he succeeded in
gathering a handful of fishermen as
disciples, one of whom betrayed
him, one denied him, and all forsook him;
and he says, "It is enough
for you to be like that." The idea
of evangelical success, church
prosperity, civilized manifestation, does
not come into it at all.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Christ died for me. What am I doing for
him?
Conversion without discipleship is openly
implied in much of our
evangelical teaching. It has become
strangely possible to be Christ's
without taking up the cross.
C. D. Alexander
Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is
really for? Is it to be a
burden to the animal which wears it? It
is just the opposite. It is to
make its burden light. Attached to the
oxen in any other way than by a
yoke the plough would be intolerable. Worked
by means of a yoke it is
light. A yoke is not an instrument of
torture; it is an instrument of
mercy. It is not a malicious contrivance
for making work hard; it is a
gentle device to make hard labor light.
It is not meant to give pain,
but to save pain. And yet men speak of
the yoke of Christ as if it
were a slavery and look upon those who
wear it as objects of
compassion.
John Drummond (1851-1897)
Discipleship and salvation are two
different things: a disciple is one
who, realizing the meaning of the
atonement, deliberately gives
himself up to Jesus Christ in unspeakable
gratitude.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Discipleship means discipline. The
disciple is one who has come with
his ignorance, superstition, and sin to
find learning, truth, and
forgiveness from the Savior. Without
discipline we are not disciples.
Victor Raymond Edman (1900-1967)
If we were willing to learn the meaning
of real discipleship and
actually to become disciples, the church
in the West would be
transformed and the resultant impact on
society would be staggering.
David Watson (1933-1984)
If you want to remain a full-orbed grape,
you must keep out of God's
hands for he will crush you. Wine cannot
be had in any other way.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
In every Christian's heart there is a
cross and a throne, and the
Christian is on the throne till he puts
himself on the cross; if he
refuses the cross, he remains on the
throne. Perhaps this is at the
bottom of the backsliding and worldliness
among gospel believers
today. We want to be saved, but we insist
that Christ do all the
dying. No cross for us, no dethronement,
no dying. We remain king
within the little kingdom of Mansoul and
wear our tinsel crown with
all the pride of a Caesar; but we doom ourselves
to shadows and
weakness and spiritual sterility.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
In the initial stages of discipleship you
get "stormy weather," then
you lose the nightmare of your own
separate individuality and become
part of the personality of Christ, and
the thought of yourself never
bothers you anymore because you are taken
up with your relationship to
God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
It never cost a disciple anything to
follow Jesus: to talk about cost
when you are in love with someone is an insult.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
It seems amazingly difficult to put on
the yoke of Christ, but
immediately we do put it on, everything
becomes easy.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
James the brother of Jesus and James the
son of Zebedee preach and are
killed by mobs in Jerusalem; Matthew is
slain with a sword in
Ethiopia; Philip is hanged in Phrygia;
Bartholomew flayed alive in
Armenia. Andrew is crucified in Achaia,
Thomas is run through with a
lance in East India, Thaddeus is shot to
death with arrows, a cross
goes up in Persia for Simon the Zealot ,
and another in Rome for
Peter. Matthias is beheaded; only John
escapes a martyr's grace.
Frank S. Mead (1898-1982)
Jesus Christ always talked about
discipleship with an "if." We are at
perfect liberty to toss our spiritual
head and say, "No , thank you,
that is a bit too stern for me," and
the Lord will never say a word,
we can do exactly what we like. He will
never plead, but the
opportunity is there, "If ..."
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Jesus Christ didn't commit the gospel to
an advertising agency; he
commissioned disciples.
Joseph Bayly (1920-1986)
Jesus has many lovers of the heavenly
kingdom, but few bearers of his
cross. He has many desirous of
consolation, but few of tribulation. He
finds many companions of his table, but
few of his abstinence. All
desire to rejoice with him, few are
willing to endure anything for
him, or with him. Many follow Jesus to
the breaking of bread, but few
to the drinking of the cup. Many
reverence his miracles, few follow
the ignominy of his cross. Many love
Jesus so long as no adversities
befall them, many praise and bless him so
long as they receive any
consolations from him; but if Jesus hides
himself and leaves them but
a little while, they fall either into
complaining or into too much
dejection of mind.
Thomas À Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
Let him make our lives narrow; let him
make them intense; let him make
them absolutely his!
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Not what the disciple says in public
prayer, not what he preaches from
pulpit or platform, not what he writes on
paper or in letters, but
what he is in his heart which God alone
knows, determines God's
revelation of himself to him. Character
determines revelation.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is
not that we work for God, but
that God works through us; he uses us as
he likes; he allots our work
where he chooses.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Salvation is free, but discipleship costs
everything we have.
Billy Graham (1918- )
The great stumbling block in the way of
some people being disciples is
that they are gifted, so gifted that they
won't trust God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The walk of a disciple is gloriously
difficult, but gloriously
certain.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The world has yet to see what God can do
with and for and through and
in a man who is fully and wholly
consecrated to Christ.
Henry Varley
There is a difference between devotion to
principles and devotion to a
person. Hundreds of people today are
devoting themselves to phases of
truth, to causes. Jesus Christ never asks
us to devote ourselves to a
cause or a creed; he asks us to devote
ourselves to him.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
We should live our lives as though Christ
were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter (1924- )
We talk about the joys and comforts of
salvation; Jesus Christ talks
about taking up the cross and following
him.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Never strike a
child! You might miss and hurt yourself.
One way to keep
young boys from getting on the wrong track is to use better switching
facilities.
A boy is like a
canoe ‑ he behaves better if paddled from the rear.
A pat on the back
will develop character if given young enough, often enough, low enough ‑
and hard enough.
Character does
not reach its best until it is controlled, harnessed, and disciplined.
The child who always
complains he's getting the short end of the stick should be given more of it.
There are many
"bright children" who should be applauded with one hand.
There are still a
few people who can remember when a child misbehaved to get attention ‑
and got it!
Spoiled kids soon
become little stinkers.
If brushing up on
manners doesn't help some children, the brush should be moved down a bit.
Some of today's
children don't smart in the right place.
Nowadays children
are called bright when they make remarks that used to call for a good spanking.
When children get
on the wrong track it's time to use the switch.
Child training is
chiefly a matter of knowing which end of the child to pat ‑ and when.
Sometimes the
best way to straighten out a child is by bending him over.
If a child annoys
you, quiet him by brushing his hair ‑ if this doesn't work, use the other
side of the brush on the other end of the child.
Dieting is merely
a matter of keeping your mouth shut at the right time ‑ such as
breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Being on a diet
requires great won't power.
Successful
dieting requires that you do the opposite of baseball players ‑ stay away
from the plate!
If you can pat a
guy on the head when you feel like bashing it in, you're a diplomat.
Discipline
yourself so others won't have to.
When a man
praises discipline, nine times out of ten this means he is prepared to administer
it rather than submit to it.
Discipline is
something that can be learned during the first year of school or the first year
of married life.
Psychiatrists
tell us that discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the
lack of it breaks a parent's heart.
Discipline is
what you inflict on one end of a child to impress the other.
Nothing is harder
on a grandparent than having to watch a grandchild being disciplined.
All that the
overwhelming majority of people are doing about juvenile delinquency is reading
about it.
Most juvenile
delinquents are youngsters who have been given a free hand, but not in the
proper place.
In the days when
a woodshed stood behind the American home, a great deal of what passes as
juvenile delinquency was settled out of
court.
Juvenile
delinquency is the result of parents trying to train their children without
starting at the bottom.
Juvenile
delinquency was unheard of many years ago because the problem was thrashed‑out
in the woodshed.
Did the
conversion of so many woodsheds into garages have anything to do with the
alarming increase in juvenile delinquency.?
The man who remembers
what he learned at his mother's knee was probably bent over at the time.
A really good
parent is a provider, a counselor, an adviser, and when necessary, a disciplinarian.
Applied child psychology
was more effective when the applicator was a small razor strap.
One sure way to
test your will power is to see a friend with a black eye and not ask any
questions.
Human beings have
will power while a mule has won't power.
Why is it that
someone who has the will power to give up smoking doesn't have the will power
to stop bragging about it?
Will power cannot
be furnished by anyone but you.
Most of the time
our will power suffers from generator trouble.
What kids need
today is plenty of LSD Love, Security, and Discipline.
A man's discontent is his worst evil.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
All the wants which disturb human life,
which make us uneasy to
ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and
unthankful to God, which weary
us in vain labors and foolish anxieties,
which carry us from project
to project, from place to place in a poor
pursuit of we don't know
what, are the wants which neither God nor
nature, nor reason hath
subjected us to, but are solely infused
into us by pride, envy,
ambition, and covetousness.
William Law (1686-1761)
Beware of ambition-it can drive you into
a lot of work.
Discontent follows ambition like a
shadow.
Henry H. Haskins
Discontent is the first step in the progress
of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Discontent is the source of trouble, but
also of progress.
Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882)
Half the world is unhappy because it
can't have the things that are
making the other half unhappy.
If you don't get everything you want,
think of the things you don't
get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
It is not the man who has too little, but
the man who craves more, who
is poor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
Our desires always increase with our
possessions. the knowledge that
something remains yet unenjoyed impairs
our enjoyment of the good
before us.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Restlessness and discontent are the
necessities of progress.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man-and I
will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
The ass went seeking for horns and lost
his ears.
Arabian Proverb
The grass is always greener in the next
lawn, and the traffic always
moves faster in the next lane.
The poorest man in the world is the one
who is always wanting more
than he has.
The world owes all its onward impulses to
men ill at ease. The happy
man inevitably confines himself within
ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
There are two kinds of discontent in this
world: the discontent that
works, and the discontent that wrings its
hands. The first gets what
it wants, and the second loses what it
has. There's no cure for the
first but success; and there's no cure at
all for the second.
Gordon Graham
There's no place like home-except
Florida, Mexico, and Europe.
Those who want much are always much in
need.
Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Regret is an appalling waste of energy;
you can't build on it; it's
only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
A grouch always looks as if he were
weaned on a pickle.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslavian Proverb
Complainers are the greatest persecutors.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Complaining about our lot in life might
seem quite innocent in itself,
but God takes it personally.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Don't complain; the more you complain
about things the more things you
will have to complain about.
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)
Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich (1901- )
If Christians spent as much time praying
as they do grumbling, they
would have nothing to grumble about.
It's the worst wheel of the wagon that
screeches the loudest.
Spanish Proverb
Murmur at nothing: if our ills are irreparable,
it is ungrateful; if
remediless, it is in vain. A Christian
builds his fortitude on a
better foundation than stoicism; he is
pleased with everything that
happens because he knows it could not
happen unless it had first
pleased God, and that which pleases him
must be the best.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Some people are always grumbling because
roses have thorns; I am
thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
The wrong was his who wrongfully
complained.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
There are many ways to get ulcers but the
most common is
mountain-climbing over molehills.
When we are discontented with ourselves,
we complain about others.
Paul Tournier (1898-1986)
When you ask some people how they are,
they expect you to listen to
the details.
Whenever you find yourself disposed to
uneasiness or murmuring at
anything that is the effect of God's
providence, look upon yourself as
denying either the wisdom or goodness of
God.
William Law (1686-1761)
Discouragement comes when we insist on
having our own way.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Discouragement is disenchanted egotism.
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
He that is down need fear no fall, He
that is low, no pride.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne and yet must bear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
In times of dryness and desolation we
must be patient, and wait with
resignation the return of consolation,
putting our trust in the
goodness of God. We must animate
ourselves by the thought that God is
always with us, that he only allows this
trial for our greater good,
and that we have not necessarily lost his
grace because we have lost
the taste and feeling of it.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Jonah felt down in the mouth when the
great fish swallowed him.
Never doubt in the dark what God told you
in the light.
Victor Raymond Edman (1900-1967)
One of my great encouragements is to be
friends with those who were
personally acquainted with A. W. Tozer.
This man, who knew God so
intimately, had days when he was so
discouraged he felt he could not
continue as a minister. A man who
instructed thousands in the deep
things of God often felt he was a miserable
failure.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
We should not be upset when unexpected
and upsetting and discouraging
things happen. God in his wisdom means to
make something of us which
we have not yet attained and is dealing
with us accordingly.
J. I. Packer (1926- )
When we yield to discouragement, it is
usually because we give too
much thought to the past or to the
future.
Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
It's a rare person who doesn't get
discouraged. Whether it happens
to us or to an associate we're trying to
cheer up, the answer centers
around one word: perseverance.
If I have ever made any valuable
discoveries, it has been owing
more to patient attention, than to any
other talent.
Isaac Newton
A foolish man tells a woman to stop
talking, but a wise man tells her
that her mouth is extremely beautiful
when her lips are closed.
A word out of season may mar a whole
lifetime.
Greek Proverb
Be civil to all; sociable to many;
familiar with few; friend to one;
enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Discretion is leaving a few things
unsaid.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
Discretion is putting two and two
together and keeping your mouth
shut.
Discretion is seeing as much as you
ought, not as much as you can.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the
sugar of life; the one
preserves, the other sweetens it.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904)
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind;
if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
It takes two years to learn to talk and
seventy years to learn to keep
your mouth shut.
Much that may be thought cannot wisely be
said.
Speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
Philip Sidney
A lean compromise is better than a fat
lawsuit.
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound
of wit.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so
is a fair woman which is
without discretion.
Proverbs 11:22
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend
without discretion; even a
prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de la Fontaine
I have never been hurt by anything I
didn't say.
Calvin Coolidge
Those who perform the modern dance
exercise everything except discretion.
Discretion is something that comes to a
person after he's too old for it to do him any good.
The age of discretion is when you make a fool
of yourself in a more dignified way.
Discretion is putting two and two
together and keeping your mouth shut.
Discretion is simply leaving a few things
unsaid.
Definition of discretion: "Closing
your eyes to a situation before someone else closes them for you."
Discretion is the art of forgiving your
enemies ‑ especially those you can't whip.
Discretion is like a man's beard ‑
it doesn't show up until he grows up.
The best exercise is to exercise
discretion at the dining table.
And there was the girl who was so lazy
she wouldn't even exercise discretion.
Discussion is the anvil on which the
spark of truth is struck.
Before you can cure the diseases of the body,
you must cure the
diseases of the soul-greed, ignorance,
prejudice, and intolerance.
Paul Ehrlich (185-1915)
Every sick person is faced with the
problem of the meaning of
things.... "What is God saying to me
through this?" is their constant
question. That is the meaning of things.
It is to ask myself what God
is saying through that star that I am
looking at, through this friend
who is speaking to me, through this
difficulty that is holding me up,
or through this trouble that befalls me. Once
awake to this way of
thinking, one discovers the true savor of
life. Everything becomes
throbbing with interest.
Paul Tournier (1898-1986)
Make sickness itself a prayer.
Saint Francis of Sales (1567-1622)
Sickness shows us what we are.
Latin Proverb
The chamber of sickness is the chapel of
devotion.
English Proverb
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Illness makes a man a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
The beginning of health is to know the
disease.
Spanish proverb
Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
Publilius Syrus
There are only two things children will
share willingly ‑ communicable diseases and their mother's age.
Conceit is the only disease known to man
that makes everybody sick except the person who has it.
Psychiatrists tell us that conceit is a
disease. It's a mighty strange ailment; the victim usually feels all right, but
it makes his associates
sick.
Germs attack the weakest part of your
body ‑ which is the reason for head colds.
Sometimes we get the feeling that swine
flu was thought up by somebody who couldn't spell pneumonia.
Virus is a Latin word used by doctors,
meaning, "Your guess is as good as mine."
Fatal diseases kill more people than any
other kind.
Everybody is suffering from a new ailment
called COSTROPHOBIA. It's the fear of rising prices.
It's becoming more difficult each passing
day to find a disease we can afford.
The inevitable has happened. An
artificial kidney has come down with kidney stones.
Human diseases are the same as they were
a thousand years ago, but doctors have selected more expensive names for them.
The most wonderful thing for the common
cold is a common handkerchief.
We called it "swine flu"
because it made us so sick we just laid around and grunted.
It seems that almost everybody you meet
has a cure for the common cold ‑ except your doctor.
The best way to avoid the flu is to visit
a night club. No flu bug can live in that environment.
The occupational disease of politicians
is SPENDICITIS.
A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it
weren't for the advice of your friends.
You have a very common disease if you're
sick of high doctor fees.
A summer cold isn't much different from a
winter cold, except that we talk about it more.
Arthritis is nothing more than twinges in
the hinges.
Among the most popular remedies that
won't cure a cold is advice.
Why is the virus that causes the common
cold so hard to find, when it's so easy to catch?
The best way to get rid of a cold is to
contract pneumonia, which the doctor can do something about.
People with bad colds don't go to the
doctor ‑ they go to the theater.
If gambling is a disease, as some
contend, can you deduct your losses as a medical expense?
Why not cultivate health instead of
treating disease?
If we had our way, we would make health
"catching" instead of disease.
An indecisive hypochondriac is one who
just can't make up his mind which disease he wants to have next.
Kissing is the most pleasant way of
spreading germs yet devised.
Now that we have Medicare we can enjoy
diseases that once we couldn't afford.
Said a weight watcher, "I'm fat
because I have a hand‑to‑mouth disease."
Human diseases are the same as they were five
thousand years ago, but doctors have selected more expensive names for them.
A cynic in New Jersey asks, "If
science is so smart, why doesn't it discover an ailment that can be cured only
by smoking and drink
ing?"
Some ulcers are caused by inflammation of
the wishbone.
Better not live at all than live
disgraced.
Greek proverb
A jug is never carried under one's coat
for an honest reason.
Latin Proverb
Cleaning a blot with a blotted finger
makes a greater blot.
Chinese Proverb
Corruption is a tree,
whose branches are
Of an unmeasurable length:
they spread
Ev'rywhere.
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
Dishonesty is a scorpion that will sting
itself to death.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
Danish Proverb
He who knows the truth but keeps silent
is like him who tells lies.
Arabian Proverb
He who purposely cheats his friend would
cheat his God.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
He who steals an egg will steal a camel.
Arabian Proverb
Tongue double brings trouble.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an
appointment is dishonesty. You may
as well borrow a person's money as his
time.
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
When you say that you agree with a thing
in principle, you mean that
you have not the slightest intention of
carrying it out in practice.
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck
(1815-1898)
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many
ways, but in some. Forty-one, I
think it is.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
There is no disputing about tastes.
Latin proverb
Thought that is silenced is always
rebellious. . . . Majorities, of
course, are often mistaken. This is why
the silencing of minorities is
always dangerous. Criticism and dissent
are the indispensable antidote
to major delusions.
Alan Barth
Respect is greater from a distance.
Latin proverb
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
Louise Colet
What loneliness is more lonely than
distrust?
George Eliot
Distrust is poison to friendship.
Never trust a man who speaks well of
everybody.
John Churton Collins
Who divides honey with the bear gets the
lesser share.
Italian proverb
Divorce and adultery invaded the church
... creating an epidemic-like
atmosphere. Rationalization reigned
supreme.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
Divorce is a hash made of domestic
scraps.
Ed Wynn
Divorce is an easy escape, many think.
But ... the guilt and
loneliness they experience can be even
more tragic than living with
their problem.
Billy Graham (1918- )
Divorce is disengagement for trivial
reasons because the couple
married for trivial reasons.
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
French Proverb
God made marriage an indissoluble
contract; the world today has made
it a scrap of paper to be torn up at the
whim of the participants.
Cardinal George William Mundelein
(1872-1939)
I have such hatred of divorce that I
prefer bigamy to divorce.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Most divorces are not bad marriages, just
poorly prepared marriages.
Jim Talley
So many persons who think divorce a
panacea for every ill find out
when they try it that the remedy is worse
than the disease .
Dorothy Dix (1870-1951)
We have put men on the moon but have not
found a solution for moral
decay. We have made gigantic strides in
medicine but cannot stop the
alarming number of divorces and the near
dissolution of the family unit.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
All that's needed for a divorce today is
a wedding.
There are three chief causes of divorce
in America--men, women, and
marriage.
Divorce
An actress in Hollywood described her ex‑husband,
"He's six feet tall in his socks and $2,000 short in his alimony
payments."
Did you hear about the movie actress who
was so sentimental she got divorced in the same dress her mother was wearing
when she
got her divorce?"
An actress in New York City has broken up
so many homes that she's listed in the Yellow Pages under "Demolition
Experts."
America is a country where permanent
waves are increasing and permanent wives are decreasing.
A bachelor is a man who has cheated some
worthy woman out of her alimony.
Many bachelors claim they never got married
because they couldn't afford the luxury of a divorce.
Common sense could prevent a great many
divorces; but, on the other hand, it could also prevent a great many marriages.
A compliment a day keeps divorce far, far
away.
More and more lovely courtships sail into
the sea of matrimony and finally sink into the rocky storms of divorce.
The only thing a divorce proves is whose
mother was right in the first place.
A divorce is what couples agree on when
they can't agree on anything else.
The best and surest way to save a
marriage from divorce is not to show up for the wedding.
There would be fewer divorces if women
hunted for husbands with as much thought as they hunt for bargains.
It's true that some people get divorced
for trivial reasons. Brit, then, some of them got married for trivial reasons.
The first step toward divorce is getting
engaged.
Did you hear about the father of three
sets of twins who sued his wife for a divorce on the grounds that she was
overbearing?
The most terrible thing about a divorce is
that somewhere, maybe miles apart, two mothers are nodding their heads and
saying, "See? I
told you so."
Judging by the divorce rate, a lot of
people who said, "I do" ‑ didn't!
A man and his wife were divorced because
of illness ‑ they got sick of each other.
A little common sense would prevent most
divorces ‑ and marriages too.
All a girl needs for a divorce these days
is a husband.
A divorce is what happens when what you
thought was a marriage turns out to be a conglomerate.
Most divorce cases are only antitrust
suits.
A "Hollywood divorce" means
that the wife is asking for custody of the money.
With as many divorces as we have
nowadays, it seems that more parents are running away from home than children.
The divorce rate would be lower if, instead
of marrying for better or worse, people would marry for good.
Divorce is when you'd rather switch than
fight.
You have only to mumble a few words in
church to get married and a few in your sleep to get divorced.
The high divorce rate indicates that the
modern woman hasn't made up her mind whether to have a man for a hubby or a
hobby.
Divorce is the hash made from domestic
scraps.
There would be fewer divorces if the
husband tried as hard to keep his wife as he did to get her.
Those who are so perturbed over the
present divorce rate evidently do not understand the law of supply and demand.
There are more
lawyers in this country than there are
preachers.
The story is going around about a couple
whose divorce was so amicable that he proposed to her again.
There would be fewer divorces if men gave
as much loving attention to their wives as they do to their cars, boats, and
dogs.
A Georgia woman got a divorce because of
religious differences. She worshiped money, and he didn't have a dime.
Judging by the number of divorces, too
many couples were mispronounced husband and wife.
Love is the quest, marriage the conquest,
divorce the inquest.
A woman no longer says she's getting a divorce
‑ now she says she's being recycled.
Divorce is a custom so common nowadays
that smart people are staying single in order to be different.
The way divorces keep climbing someday
the marriage ceremony will change from "I do" to "Perhaps."
Many divorces are caused by the marriage
of two people who are in love with themselves.
The divorce problem exists because there
are too many married couples and too few husbands and wives.
Two Hollywood children were talking. One
of them said quite boastfully, "I've got two brothers and one little
sister, how many do you
have?" The other child answered,
"I don't have any brothers and sisters, but I have three daddies by my
first mother, and four mothers
by my last daddy."
Desertion is the poor man's method of divorce.
A divorce is like a fire escape ‑
you only use it when things get too hot.
A wealthy father didn't know what to give
his daughter as a wedding present, so he promised to pay for her divorce.
Americans have always been willing to pay
any price for freedom. If you don't believe it, look at the divorce statistics!
A girl becomes a woman when she stops living
on her allowance and starts living on her alimony.
Nowadays some girls seem more particular
about choosing their divorce lawyers than choosing their husbands.
Some girls get married for financial
security; others get divorced for the same reason.
A modern miracle would be a golden
wedding anniversary in Hollywood.
In Hollywood the bride tossing the
bouquet is just as likely to be the next one to get married as the girl who
catches it.
A couple in Hollywood got divorced; then
they got married again. The divorce didn't work out to the complete
satisfaction of both parties.
The secret of a successful Hollywood marriage
is for the couple to have something in common ‑ such as the same divorce
lawyer.
There's many a girl who got married
because she didn't like to spend her evenings alone ‑and then got a
divorce for the same reason.
Love at first sight usually ends with
divorce at first slight.
Too many people are finding it easier to
get married than to stay married.
A couple recently had their marriage annulled,
and sued the officiating minister for malpractice.
A man in Montana has been married so many
times his last marriage license was made out TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
Marriage often results when a man meets a
woman who understands him. So does divorce.
When it comes to broken marriages most
husbands will split the blame ‑ half his wife's fault, and half her
mother's.
Some men get married because they're
tired of going to the laundromat, eating in restaurants, and wearing socks
with holes in them.
Other men get divorces for the same
reasons.
In the old days a woman married a man for
his money, but now she divorces him for it.
A man in New Hampshire complained about
slow mail delivery, "Today, I received an invitation to the wedding of a
couple who are
already divorced."
Distressed wife to her attorney: "My
husband always said everything he has is mine, and now I want it."
It takes only a few words mumbled in
church and you're married. It takes only a few words mumbled in your sleep and
you're
divorced.
If it weren't for the divorce courts
separating people, the police would have to.
Divorce records show that many married
couples spend too much time in court and not enough time courting.
Black and blue are very effective colors
when worn in the divorce courts.
In much divorce‑court testimony the
couples seem to think they were married by an injustice of the peace.
The divorce courts are filled with people
who thought they had been bitten by the love bug, and then found out they had
only been
bitten.
A divorce court is where the "little
woman" who was once considered incomparable suddenly becomes
incompatible.
My son is thinking of becoming a doctor.
He has the handwriting for it.
Doctors have been classified into three
types--expensive, costly,
and exorbitant.
Some doctors tell their patients the
worst--others mail them the bill.
My doctor saved my life once. I called
him to the house and he
never showed up.
Doctors are becoming easier to find these
days. Most of the caddies
all have portable phones.
The best doctor is the one you run for
and can't find.
Denis Diderot
The person most often late for a doctor's
appointment is the doctor
himself.
One doctor makes work for another.
Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must
be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates
An ignorant doctor is no better than a
murderer.
Chinese proverb
A man who is his own doctor has a fool
for his patient.
Every doctor has his favorite disease.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Though the patient die, the doctor is
paid.
The doctor is more to be feared than the
disease.
French proverb
No good doctor ever takes physic.
Italian proverb
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured
who have simply quit in disgust.
Don Herold
While the doctors consult, the patient
dies.
English proverb
In religion as in politics it so happens
that we have less charity
for those who believe half our creed,
than for those who deny the
whole of it.
Walter Colton
Doctrines are nothing but the skin of
truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher
"God knows me" is different
from "God is omniscient"; the latter is a
mere theological statement; the former is
a child of God's most
precious possession.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
A doctrine has practical value only as
far as it is prominent in our
thoughts and makes a difference in our
lives.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Any doctrine that will not bear
investigation is not a fit tenant for
the mind of an honest man.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)
As the grave grows nearer, my theology is
growing strangely simple,
and it begins and ends with Christ as the
only Savior of the lost.
Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901)
Could God pass an examination in
theology?
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
Doctrine nails your faith.
Doctrine won't make you happy unless it
is translated into life.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
Dogma is nothing more or less than
emergency measures to which the
church is driven by heresies.
Hans Küng (1928- )
Dogma is the ark within which the church
floats safely down the
flood-tide of history.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Great saints have always been dogmatic.
We need a return to a gentle
dogmatism that smiles while it stands
stubborn and firm on the Word of
God.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
If God consistently sent lightning bolts
in response to bad doctrine,
our planet would sparkle nightly like a
Christmas tree.
Philip Yancey (1949- )
If your theology doesn't change your
behavior, it will never change
your destiny.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
In theology we must consider the
predominance of authority; in
philosophy the predominance of reason.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Let a man go to the grammar school of faith
and repentance before he
goes to the university of election and
predestination.
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Let one define his terms and then stick
to the definition, and half
the differences in philosophy and
theology would come to an end.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
Many a long dispute among divines may be
thus abridged: It is so. It
is not so. It is so. It is not so.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
My entire theology can be condensed into
four words: "Jesus died for me."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
My strong advice to you is to soak, soak,
soak in philosophy and
psychology until you know more of these
subjects than ever you need
consciously to think. It is ignorance of
these subjects on the part of
ministers and workers that has brought
our evangelical theology to
such a sorry plight.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Never take the conception of a theologian
as infallible; it is simply
an attempt to state things.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Nothing dies harder than a theological
difference.
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957)
Our theology must become biography.
Tim Hansel
The best theology is rather a divine life
than a divine knowledge.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
The Christian faith is the most exciting
drama that ever staggered the
imagination of man-and the dogma is the
drama.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
The theological problems of original sin,
origin of evil,
predestination, and the like are the
soul's mumps and measles and
whooping coughs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The Trinity, the Incarnation, and the
Resurrection: your faith and my
faith must include these three mysteries.
They are difficult to
understand. They are not
unintelligible-God understands them. But for
us there is an element of mystery. The
greatest error anyone can make
is to think they can fully understand
these three mysteries. It makes
a mockery of faith.
Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902- )
Theologians are always bothering about
the origin of evil, but evil is
just natural behavior; it's the origin of
human goodness that is
really so extraordinary and inexplicable.
Kingsley Martin
Theological truth is useless until it is
obeyed.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Theology is an attempt to understand the
mystery.
Theology is but the science of mind applied
to God. As schools change,
theology must necessarily change. Truth
is everlasting, but our ideas
of truth are not. Theology is but our
ideas of truth classified and
arranged.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Theology is that madness gone systematic
which tries to crowd God's
fullness into a formula and a system.
Joel Blau
Theology is the science of religion, an
intellectual attempt to
systematize the consciousness of God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Theology should be empress, and
philosophy and the other arts merely
her servants.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Theology teaches us what ends are
desirable and what means are lawful,
while politics teaches what means are
effective.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
There is no wild beast so ferocious as
Christians who differ
concerning their faith.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903)
True doctrine is a master key to all the
world's problems. With it the
world can be taken apart and put
together.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
We can be certain about God, but
tentative about theology.
Ian Ramsey
Your theology is what you are when the
talking stops and the action starts.
Colin Morris (1929- )
Ancient of Days! except thou deign
Upon the finished task to smile,
The workman's hand hath toiled in vain,
To hew the rock and rear the pile.
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Are you in earnest? Seize this very
minute! What you can do, or dream
you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it. Only
engage, and then the mind grows heated.
Begin, and then the work will
be completed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
At the day of judgment we shall not be
asked what we have read but
what we have done.
Thomas A Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
Being able to do something well is one of
life's great joys.
Frank Tyger
Determine never to be idle. . . . It is
wonderful how much may be done
if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Do what you can with what you have where
you are.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Efficiency is enhanced not by what we
accomplish but more often by
what we relinquish.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
Every job is a self-portrait of the
person who did it.
God will not demand more from you than
you can do. Whatever God asks
of you, he will give you the strength to
do.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Great is the art of beginning, but
greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
He who begins many things finishes but
few.
Italian Proverb
He who cannot do something big can do
something small in a big way.
He who moves a mountain starts by
carrying away small stones.
If we prune back that part of our
activity which is not really
fruitful in the Holy Spirit, we find that
we do less, but accomplish
more.
John Michael Talbot
Lord, grant that I may always desire more
than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Men are much more apt to agree in what
they do than in what they
think.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
No matter what a man does, no matter how
successful he seems to be in
any field, if the Holy Spirit is not the
chief energizer of his
activity, it will all fall apart when he
dies.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
The difference between something good and
something great is attention
to detail.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
The virtue of deeds lies in completing
them.
Arabian Proverb
The world is moving so fast these days
that the man who says it can't
be done is generally interrupted by
someone doing it.
Thinking well is wise; planning well,
wiser; doing well wisest and
best of all.
Persian Proverb
Unless you try to do something beyond
what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
A bell doesn't ring on its own-if someone
doesn't pull or push it, it
will remain silent.
Plautus (C. 254-184 B.C.)
A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's
not what ships are built for.
A strong man must have something
difficult to do.
John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895)
Doing becomes the natural overflow of
being when the pressure within
is stronger than the pressure without.
Lois Lebar
Every calling is great when greatly
pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Four steps to achievement: Plan
purposefully, prepare prayerfully,
proceed positively, pursue persistently.
William Arthur Ward (1812-1882)
Give me a person who says, "This one
thing I do, and not these fifty
things I dabble in."
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
It is not enough to aim: you must hit.
Italian Proverb
It is very easy to overestimate the
importance of our own achievements
in comparison with what we owe others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
No great achievement is possible without
persistent work.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
(1872-1970)
Nothing will ever be attempted if all
possible objections must be
first overcome.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can
ever achieve greatly.
Sitting on a tack is often more useful
than having an idea; at least
it makes you get up and do something
about it.
Some men dream of worthy accomplishments,
while others stay awake and
do them.
The airplane, the atomic bomb, and the
zipper have cured me of any
tendency to state that a thing can't be
done.
R. L. Duffus
The greatest works are done by the ones.
The hundreds do not often do
much, the companies never; it is the
units, the single individuals,
that are the power and the might.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
The roots of true achievement lie in the
will to become the best that
you can become.
Harold Taylor
The world is divided into people who do
things and people who get the
credit; try to belong to the first
class-there's far less competition.
Dwight Whitney Morrow (1873-1931)
There is no gathering the rose without
being pricked by the thorns.
What people say you cannot do, you try
and find that you can.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth
doing well.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Where would you be if God took away all
your Christian work? Too often
it is our Christian work that is
worshipped and not God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
A Christian should always remember that
the value of his good works is
not based on their number and excellence,
but on the love of God which
prompts him to do these things.
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
A dog barks when his master is attacked.
I would be a coward if I saw
that God's truth is attacked and yet
would remain silent.
John Calvin (1509-1564)
A few dozen act while millions stand
impotent.
John Fowles (1926- )
A thousand words will not leave so deep
an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
All glory comes from daring to begin.
All our actions take
Their hues from the complexion of the
heart,
As landscapes their variety from light.
W. T. Bacon (1812-1881)
Christian action is not of ourselves; it
is the spirit of Christ
operating in our lives.
Every action of our lives touches on some
chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880)
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can
do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something
that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find one self-denying
deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard-
One glance most kind, that fell like
sunshine where it went-
Then you may count that day well spent.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Let a good man do good deeds with the
same zeal that the evil man does
bad ones.
The Belzer Rabbi
Resolved, never to do anything which I
should be afraid to do if it
were the last hour of my life.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Some people are content not to do mean
actions; I want to become
incapable of a mean thought or feeling.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
We have a shortage of effective Christian
action at the real centers
of national influence because of
misplaced Christian energy, misplaced
Christian money-and misplaced Christians.
McCandlish Phillips
God looks at the intention of the heart rather
than the gifts he is
offered.
Jean Pierre Camus (1584-1652)
He who means well is useless unless he
does well.
Plautus (C. 254-184 B.C.)
Man considers the actions, but God weighs
the intentions.
Thomas À Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
A possibility is a hint from God.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
God can do nothing for me until I get to
the limit of the possible.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Make that possible for me which is
impossible by nature.
Thomas À Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
Nothing is impossible; there are ways
that lead to everything, and if
we had sufficient will, we should always
have sufficient means. It is
often merely an excuse that we say things
are impossible.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680)
Somebody is always doing what somebody
else said couldn't be done.
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not
yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Alas for those who never sing, but die
with all their music in them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
An atom is the smallest thing in the
world which, when split, becomes
the biggest.
Bad will be the day for every man when he
becomes absolutely content
with the life that he is living, with the
thoughts that he is
thinking, with the deeds that he is doing,
when there is not forever
beating at the doors of his soul some
great desire to do something
larger, which he knows that he was meant
and made to do because he is
still, in spite of all, the child of God.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Cheerios: hula-hoops for ants.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are
only half awake.
William James (1842-1910)
Do not let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do.
John Wooden
Every saint has a past and every sinner
has a future.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
God holds us responsible, not for what we
have, but for what we could
have; not for what we are, but for what
we might be.
If seed in the black earth can turn into
such beautiful roses, what
might not the heart of man become in its long
journey toward the
stars?
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
If you treat a person as he is, he will
stay as he is; but if you
treat him as if he were what he ought to
be and could be, he will
become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns
grow.
David Everett
Many individuals have, like uncut
diamonds, shining qualities beneath
a rough exterior.
Juvenal (C. 60-C. 127)
Most people live, physically,
intellectually, or morally, in a
restricted circle of their potential
being. They make use of a very
small portion of their consciousness and
of their soul's resources,
much like a man who uses only his little
finger. Great emergencies and
crises show us how great our resources
are.
William James (1842-1910)
One machine can do the work of fifty
ordinary men. No machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
One of the saddest experiences that can come
to a human being is to
awaken, gray-haired and wrinkled, near
the close of an unproductive
career, to the fact that all through the
years he has been using only
a small part of himself.
V. W. Burrows
So much God would give ... so little is
received. Why live so beggarly
when the riches of heaven are yours for
the asking?
Frances J. Roberts
The atom is proof that it's the little
things that count.
The creation of a thousand forests is in
one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The frog in the well knows nothing of the
great ocean.
Japanese Proverb
The measure of the depth to which a man
can fall is the height to
which he can rise.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The same stuff that makes the criminal
makes the saint.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
There are no great men in this world,
only great challenges which
ordinary men rise to meet.
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. (1882-1959)
There is a great deal of unmapped country
within us.
There is a potential hero in every
man-and a potential skunk.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Wake for shame, my sluggish heart,
Wake, and gladly sing thy part:
Learn of birds, and springs, and flowers,
How to use thy noble powers.
John Austin (1613-1669)
We know what we are, but know not what we
may be.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Where man sees but withered leaves, God
sees sweet flowers growing.
Albert Laighton (1829-1887)
Every dog has his day--but the nights are
reserved for the cats.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity,
perseverance, and to turn around
three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
Yiddish proverb
The dog is turned to his own vomit again.
2 Peter 2:22
If you wish the dog to follow you, feed
him.
It is hard to teach an old dog new
tricks.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
The slowest barker is the surest biter.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Latin proverb
It is easier to know how to do than it is
to do.
Chinese proverb
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do what you ought and come what can.
No man can do nothing and no man can do
everything.
German proverb
What is done cannot be undone.
Italian proverb
To do two things at once is to do
neither.
Latin proverb
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Latin proverb
We become just by performing just
actions, temperate by performing
temperate actions, brave by performing
brave actions.
Aristotle
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
with thy might; for there
is no work, nor device, nor knowledge,
nor wisdom, in the grave,
whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Men are all alike in their promises. It
is only in their deeds that
they differ.
Moliere
No one knows what he can do till he
tries.
Publilius Syrus
Nowadays, a dollar saved is a quarter
earned.
Who knows nothing doubts nothing.
French proverb
To believe with certainty we must begin
with doubting.
Stanislaw I, king of Poland
In the Garden of Paradise, man hid from
God in the garden; now man
hides within himself.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979)
Most people have some sort of religion-at
least they know what church
they're staying away from.
John Erskine (1509-1591)
The agnostic's prayer: "O God, if
there is a God, save my soul, if I
have a soul.
Joseph Ernest Renan (1823-1892)
It's hard to believe, but some people
claim their dogs are almost human ‑ and they mean it as a compliment!
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win
friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
A dog is the only thing on earth that
loves you more than he loves himself.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it
just as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
A dog is smarter than some people. It
wags its tail and not its tongue.
The noblest of all animals is the dog,
and the noblest of all dogs is the hotdog. It feeds the hand that bites it.
If dogs can think, how can we account for
their love for man?
Another reason why a dog is man's best
friend is because he's not always calling for explanations.
How did dogs learn to bark their loudest
during a television news bulletin?
When in doubt, tell the truth. Never put
a question mark where God has put a period. Some folks demand the benefit of
the doubt when there isn't any.
When in doubt, don't.
Doubt makes the mountain which faith can
move.
Many people believe their doubts and
doubt their beliefs.
If you doubt the propriety of doing a
thing, you'd better give yourself the benefit of the doubt and not do it.
Think of doubt as an invitation to think.
Feed your faith and your doubts will
starve to death. No one can live in doubt when he has prayed in faith.
Twin fools: one doubts nothing, the other
doubts everything.
Hope is putting faith to work when
doubting would be easier.
The everlasting perhaps.
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
When agnosticism has done its withering
work in the mind of man, the
mysteries remain as before; all that has been
added to them is a
settled despair.
Vincent McNabb (1868-1943)
Beware of doubt-faith is the subtle chain
that binds us to the infinite.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893)
Christ never failed to distinguish
between doubt and unbelief. Doubt
is can't believe; unbelief is won't
believe. Doubt is honesty;
unbelief is obstinacy. Doubt is looking
for light; unbelief is content
with darkness.
John Drummond (1851-1897)
Clouds of doubt are created when the
warm, moist air of our
expectations meets the cold air of God's
silence. The problem is not
as much in God's silence as it is in your
ability to hear.
Max L. Lucado (1955- )
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that
faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is
wrong; it may be a sign that
he is thinking.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of
wisdom.
George Iles
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive,
restless age. It is the
price we pay for our advanced intelligence
and civilization -the dim
night of our resplendent day. But as the
most beautiful light is born
of darkness, so the faith that springs
from conflict is often the
strongest and the best.
Billy Graham (1918- )
Doubt is the hammer that breaks the
windows clouded with human fancies
and lets in the pure light.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is
one element of faith.
Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich (1886-1965)
Doubt makes the mountain which faith
moves.
Doubt sees the obstacles; faith sees the
way.
Doubt sees the darkest night; faith sees
the day.
Doubt dreads to take a step; faith soars
on high;
Doubt questions, "Who
believes?" Faith answers, "I."
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt.
Every thought, word, and
deed for him carries you away from
discouragement.
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822-1909)
God has never turned away the questions
of a sincere searcher.
Max L. Lucado (1955- )
I respect faith but doubt is what gets
you an education.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
If a man begins with certainties, he
shall end in doubts; but if he
begins with doubts, he shall end in
certainties.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
If a man doubts his way, Satan is always
ready to help him to a new
set of opinions.
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
If I stoop
Into the dark, tremendous sea of cloud,
It is but for a time: I press God's lamp
Close to my breast; its splendor, soon or
late,
Will pierce the gloom: I shall emerge one
day.
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
If one regards oneself as a sceptic, it
is well from time to time to
be sceptical about one's scepticism.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
If you pray for bread and bring no basket
to carry it, you prove the
doubting spirit, which may be the only
hindrance to the boon you ask.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
In our constant struggle to believe we
are likely to overlook the
simple fact that a bit of healthy
disbelief is sometimes as needful as
faith to the welfare of our souls.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
It need not discourage us if we are full
of doubts. Healthy questions
keep faith dynamic. Unless we start with
doubts we cannot have a
deep-rooted faith. One who believes
lightly and unthinkingly has not
much of a belief. He who has a faith
which is not to be shaken has won
it through blood and tears-has worked his
way from doubt to truth as
one who reaches a clearing through a
thicket of brambles and thorns.
Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
It's a healthy thing now and then to hang
a question mark on the
things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
(1872-1970)
Modest doubt is call'd
The beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Skepticism is the first step toward
truth.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Skepticism, riddling the faith of
yesterday, prepares the way for the
faith of tomorrow.
Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
The good must be doubted to be defended.
Eric Siepmann
The stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent full of doubt.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)
There are two ways to slide easily
through life: to believe everything
or to doubt everything, both ways save us
from thinking.
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
(1879-1950)
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
To believe greatly, it's necessary to
doubt greatly.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
We all know of Christians who say that
they have never doubted. Their
lives seem so pale, so far off from the
heroic adventure that is
faith. The most fruitful believers tell
us shamedly of the inner
battles that have torn them between doubt
and faith. And the great
Bible characters from Abraham or Moses
right through Jacob, Jeremiah,
Peter, and Paul all show us their
conflict-filled lives, their revolts
against heaven, their refusals to adapt
to a God who was too demanding
of them. They show us as well their
reconciliation to that God. God
loves those who don't give in without a
fight!
Paul Tournier (1898-1986)
When the mind doubts, a feather sways it
to and fro.
Terence (C. 186-C. 159 B.C.)
When you really see Jesus, I defy you to
doubt him.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Whoso draws nigh to God one step through
doubtings dim, God will
advance a mile in blazing light to him.
Without somehow destroying me in the
process, how could God reveal
himself in a way that would leave no room
for doubt? If there were no
room for doubt, there would be no room
for me.
Frederick Buechner (1926-)
He who gets a dowry with his wife, sells
himself for it.
He who marries for money, earns it.
To make your dream come true, you have to
stay awake.
Last night I got a double rest. I dreamed
I was sleeping.
A dreamer is a person who goes through
life having a wonderful time
spending money he hasn't got.
Some men see things as they are and ask
why. I dream things that
never were and say, why not?
George Bernard Shaw
All men of action are dreamers.
James G. Huneker
The Future is something which everyone
reaches at the rate of sixty
minutes an hour, whatever he does,
whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
When a dream enslaves a man,
A dream that says, "Strike out with
me, strike out or part with
God,"
It is something
To test the stuff of your rough-hewn
faith
And the fibre of your soul.
Percy R. Hayward
All men whilst they are awake are in one
common world; but each of
them, when he is asleep, is in a world of
his own.
Plutarch (C. 46-After 119)
Dreams are the touchstones of our
characters. For in dreams we but act
a part which must have been learned and
rehearsed in our waking hours.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams
awake.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Dreams are true interpreters of our
inclinations; but there is art
required to sort and understand them.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Every dream reveals a psychological
structure, full of
significance.... The dream is not
meaningless, not absurd ... it is a
perfectly valid phenomenon, actually a
... disguised fulfillment of a
suppressed wish.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep,
and God can speak to that,
either by words, by proverbs, by signs
and similitudes, as well as if
one was awake.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Castles in the air are all right until
you try to move into them.
Too many of us forget to put foundations
under our air castles.
It's more fun building castles in the air
than on the ground.
Castles in the air are great until you
step out the door.
They call it a "dream house"
because it usually costs twice as much as you dreamed it would.
The American dream is owning a British
sports car, smoking a Havana cigar, and drinking Russian vodka on the French
Riviera.
Some people dream in Technicolor ‑
others add sound effects.
Don't be unhappy if your dreams never
come true ‑ just be thankful your nightmares don't.
Some men believe in dreams until they
marry one.
It doesn't do any harm to dream,
providing you get up and hustle when the alarm goes off.
We cannot dream ourselves into what we
could be.
We may have a lot of excitement in our
dreams, but nobody ever wakes up in the morning breathless.
If you want your dreams to come true,
don't oversleep.
No dream comes true until you wake up and
go to work.
The world would be happier if its leaders
had more dreams and fewer nightmares.
A house is made of walls and beams; a
home is built with love and dreams.
Man is like a tack; he can go only as far
as his head will let him.
Between tomorrow's dream and yesterday's
regret is today's opportunity.
Those who think they are dreamers are usually
just sleepers.
People who are always walking on clouds
leave too many things up in the air.
There is more pleasure in building
castles in the air than on the ground.
Day dreams at the steering wheel lead to
nightmares in the hospital.
Oversleeping is a mighty poor way to make
your dreams come true.
Success is the ability to hitch your
wagon to a star while keeping your feet on the ground. Men who dream of
hitching their wagon to a star would be better off to hitch up their pants and
go to work.
Sleep is often the only occasion in which
man cannot silence his
conscience; but the tragedy of it is that
when we do hear our
conscience speak in sleep, we cannot act,
and that, when able to act,
we forget what we knew in our dream.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
The dream is the small hidden door in the
deepest and most intimate
sanctum of the soul, which opens into
that primeval cosmic night that
was soul long before there was a
conscious ego and will be soul far
beyond what a conscious ego could ever
reach .
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
This whole creation is essentially
subjective, and the dream is the
theater where the dreamer is at once
scene, actor, prompter, stage
manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
No fine clothes can hide the clown.
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their
relative rank if they were divested of
their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
A hot drink is as good as an overcoat.
Latin proverb
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it
makes a man mistake
words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is
responsible for:
--50 percent of all auto fatalities
--80 percent of all home violence
--30 percent of all suicides
--60 percent of all child abuse
--65 percent of all drownings
It is estimated that when a woman
contracts the disease, her
husband leaves her in nine out of ten
cases; when a man contracts it,
his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.
Kathleen W. Fitzgerald
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may
follow strong drink.
Isaiah 5:11
Much drinking, little thinking.
O God! That men should put any enemy in
their mouths to steal away their brains.
William Shakespeare
When I played drunks I had to remain
sober because I didn't know
how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton
The drunkard's joy is the sober man's
woe.
What the sober man thinks the drunkard
tells.
French proverb
Driving an automobile would be a much greater
pleasure if each motorist would use his head as much as he uses his horn.
Some automobiles have fluid drives;
others just have a drip at the wheel.
Any day now we expect to see power
steering for backseat drivers.
Bumper sticker on a car in Atlanta:
"Caution ‑ keep back! I drive like your wife."
Nothing confuses a man more than to drive
behind a woman who does everything right. The worst fault of a motorist is his
belief that he has none.
The horse would have a good laugh if he
could see motorists adjusting their shoulder harnesses.
All the world loves a lover except when
he is driving his automobile in crowded traffic ‑with his arm around his
girlfriend.
A safety belt is a device some motorists
wear religiously for about twenty minutes after they pass an accident.
American motorists take the best possible
care of their cars ‑ and they keep pedestrians in good running condition
too.
Nowadays when a motorist goes looking for
a parking place, it's a good idea to have someone go along to share the
driving.
Too many motorists figure they have an engine
to move their own car and a horn to move everybody else's.
The only reason some motorists slow down
for pedestrians is because they're afraid they'll damage their cars.
Quite often a motorist will knock a pedestrian
down because his windshield is obscured by safety stickers.
An expert has predicted that in twenty
years every motorist will be flying. And by that time every pedestrian will be
playing a harp.
Motorists are people in such a hurry to
get into the next county that they often end up in the next world.
A motorist recently admitted running over
the same man twice. The time evidently has come when there aren't enough
pedestrians to
go around.
Give a motorist an inch and he'll take
off one of your fenders.
It's strange that a motorist never
remembers he was once a pedestrian.
America needs a car that can't go any
faster than a driver can think.
One traffic hazard that drivers seem
determined to eliminate is the pedestrian.
A polite driver is one who honks his horn
before he forces you off the road.
Maybe the reason we have traffic problems
is because the traffic has become as dense as the drivers.
The way motorists drive, it pays to look
both ways when your cross a one‑way street.
Too many youngsters who have passed their
driving test think they can pass anything.
Nothing improves a man's driving like the
sudden discovery that his
license has expired.
The whole ocean is made up of little
drops.
Drop by drop fills the tub.
French proverb
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
A drowning man will catch on to the edge
of a sword.
Yiddish proverb
Advice to hunters: Don't get loaded when
your gun is.
With some of today's dance steps you
don't know if the guy on the floor is a good dancer or a bad drunk.
The higher you get in the evening, the
lower you feel in the morning.
A drunkard can live neither with alcohol
nor without it.
There's nothing more stubborn than a
drunkard trying to convince you he isn't.
Pity the poor drunkard who started out to
get mellow, then he got ripe, and ended up rotten.
A drunkard can't make both ends meet because
he's too busy making one end drink.
Some men become fishermen because they're
not allowed to drink at home.
A fool and a drunkard are two of the most
mistaken human beings on earth. One thinks he is wise, and the other thinks he
is sober.
Some folks drink liquor as if they want
to be mentioned in "BOOZE WHO."
A Montana man who seldom takes more than
one drink explained, "One drink is just right, two are too many, and three
are not
enough."
You've had too much drink when you feel
exhilarated, but can't spell or pronounce it.
Warning: Boozers are losers.
Heavy drinkers have what is known as saloon
arthritis ‑ every night they get stiff in a different joint.
A boozer insisted that his liquor bill
was deductible as a medical expense. "My friends and I drink to each
other's health."
Without his big bank account the
"problem drinker" would be called a drunken bum.
If the price of liquor continues to go
up, a certain drunk complains that it would be enough to drive him not to
drink.
The reason some people drink booze is
that they don't know what else to do with it.
Many people have so much alcohol in their
system that they ought to be charged a liquor tax for crossing state lines.
The man who downs bottles of liquor will
find that the liquor returns the favor.
Booze makes a man colorful; it gives him
a red nose, a white liver, a yellow streak, and a blue outlook.
It's when a man gets tight as a drum that
he makes the most noise.
Booze‑befuddled brains mean brawls,
bumps, and bruises.
Our next Thanksgiving menu will probably
consist of roast turkey, yams, and pickled relatives.
Drinking is something that makes one lose
inhibitions and give exhibitions.
When a man drinks too much liquor he can
approach you from several directions at once. It is useless for alcoholics to
worry about the
future for there will soon be no future
for them to worry about.
Many folks contend that sleeping out of
doors makes one beautiful. That explains the charming appearance of the town
drunk.
Fewer accidents are caused by traffic
jams than by pickled drivers.
An automotive invention that is sorely
needed is brakes that will automatically get tight when the driver does.
Cars and bars mean stars and scars.
If you must drive while drinking, drive a
nail. Then the only thing you'll hit is your finger.
When a drunken driver runs into a
telephone pole, he blames the pole.
It's better to sit tight than to attempt
to drive tight.
If you drink like a fish, swim ‑
don't drive.
If you drink before you drive, you are
`putting the quart before the hearse.'
One reason why the courts don't handle
more drunken driver cases is that the undertaker gets them first.
Loose brakes and tight drivers cause most
of the accidents.
Another dangerous habit of drunken
drivers is taking a curve at high speed when there isn't a curve.
The hand that lifts the cup that cheers,
should not be used to shift the gears.
Watch out for Sunday drivers who started
out Saturday night.
A loose nut at the wheel isn't as
dangerous as a tight one.
Traffic warning sign: "Heads you win
‑cocktails you lose."
There is only one way to drink and drive ‑hazardously!
The driver who has "one for the road"
will have state troopers as a chaser.
Drivers are safer when highways are dry,
and highways are safer when drivers are dry.
The hand that lifts the cup that
"cheers" should not be used to shift the gears.
One gallon of gas plus one pint of liquor
often adds up to a first‑class funeral.
There are two finishes for automobiles:
lacquer and liquor.
'Tis not the drinking that is to be
blamed but the excess.
John Selden (1584-1654)
A drinker has a hole under his nose that
all his money runs into.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)
Alcohol does not drown care, but waters
it and makes it grow faster
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
An alcoholic never feels fit as a fiddle
because he is always as tight
as a drum.
Drink has
Drained more blood
Hung more crepe
Sold more houses
Plunged more people into bankruptcy
Armed more villains
Slain more children
Snapped more wedding rings
Defiled more innocence
Blinded more eyes
Twisted more limbs
Dethroned more reason
Wrecked more manhood
Dishonored more womanhood
Broken more hearts
Blasted more lives
Driven more to suicide, and
Dug more graves than any other poisoned
scourge that ever swept its
death-dealing waves across the world.
Evangeline Cory Boom (1865-1950)
Drinking is the refuge of the weak; it is
crutches for lame ducks.
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)
Drunkenness is nothing else but a
voluntary madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
Drunkenness is temporary suicide; the
happiness that it brings is
merely negative, a momentary cessation of
unhappiness.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
(1872-1970)
Drunkenness is the ruin of a person. It
is premature old age. It is
temporary death.
Saint Basil (C. 330-379)
First the man-takes the drink, then the
drink-takes the man.
Japanese Proverb
I am the greatest criminal in history.
I have killed more men than have fallen
in all the wars of all the
world.
I have turned men into brutes.
I have made millions of homes unhappy.
I have changed many promising young men
into hopeless parasites.
I destroy the weak and weaken the strong.
I make the wise man a fool and I ensnare
the innocent.
I have ruined millions and shall try to
ruin millions more.
I am alcohol.
H. W Gibson
O God, that men should put an enemy in
their mouths to steal away
their brains; that we should, with joy,
pleasance, revel and applause,
transform ourselves into beasts!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness
are houses without windows,
gardens without fences, fields without
tillage, barns without roofs,
children without clothing, principles,
morals, or manners.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The drunken man is a living corpse.
Saint John Chrysostom (C. 347-407)
The man who drinks to drown his sorrow is
trying to put out a fire
with oil.
The sight of a drunkard is a better
sermon against that vice than the
best that was ever preached on the
subject.
John Faucit Saville (1783-1853)
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, and
then an enemy.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his
closet, dull everywhere.
He was dull in a new way, and that made
people think him great.
Samuel Johnson
He is not only dull in himself, but the
cause of dullness in
others.
Samuel Foote
Do your duty in all things. You could not
do more. You would not
wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
Duty before pleasure.
Duty determines destiny.
God never imposes a duty without giving
the time to perform it.
In doing what we ought we deserve no
praise.
Latin proverb
Do something every day that you don't
want to do; this is the
golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing
your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
Let us do our duty in our shop or our
kitchen, in the market, the
street, the office, the school, the home,
just as faithfully as if we
stood in the front rank of some great
battle, and knew that victory
for mankind depended on our bravery,
strength and skill. When we do
that, the humblest of us will be serving
in that great army which
achieves the welfare of the world.
Theodore Parker
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Will Durant
For strength to bear is found in duty
alone, and he is blest indeed
who learns to make the joy of others cure
his own heartache.
Drake
Do right, and God's recompense to you
will be the power to do more
right.
Frederick William Robertson (1816-1853)
Do the truth you know, and you shall
learn the truth you need to know.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Do today's duty ... and do not weaken and
distract yourself by looking
forward to things that you cannot see and
could not understand if you
saw them.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Do your duty and leave the rest to
heaven.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
Don't go around saying the world owes you
a living; the world owes you
nothing, it was here first.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Duty done is the soul's fireside.
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Duty is ours and events are God's.
Angelina Grimké (1805-1879)
For all your days prepare
And meet them all alike:
When you are the anvil, bear-
When you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly
To love his fellowmen sincerely
To act from honest motives purely
To trust in God and heaven securely.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
God gives us the ingredients for our
daily bread, but he expects us to
do the baking.
God has other work for you, and it waits
only the completion of the
present task.
Frances J. Roberts
God never imposes a duty without giving
time to do it.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
God will hold us responsible as to how
well we fulfill our
responsibilities to this age and take
advantage of our opportunities.
Billy Graham (1918- )
I alone am responsible for the wrong I
do.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
I ought, therefore I can.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
I slept and dreamed that life was joy,
I awoke and saw that life was duty,
I acted, and behold duty was joy.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
If each one sweeps in front of his own
door, the whole street is
clean.
Jewish Proverb
If you're willing to admit you're all
wrong when you are, you're all
right.
In doing what we ought we deserve no
praise because it is our duty.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou
wouldst not; thy duty, too,
to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
Thomas À Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of
our callings that we may
sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne (1572-1631)
Man should perform his duties to his
fellowmen even as to God.
Talmud
No man has a right to lead such a life of
contemplation as to forget
in his own ease the service due to his
neighbor; nor has any man a
right to be so immersed in active life as
to neglect the contemplation
of God.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Our grand business is, not to see what
lies dimly at a distance, but
to do what lies closely at hand.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Sin with the multitude, and your
responsibility and guilt are as great
and as truly personal, as if you alone
had done the wrong.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
Since you cannot do good to all, you are
to pay special regard to
those who, by the accidents of time, or
place, or circumstances, are
brought into closer connection with you.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Take care of the pennies, the dollars
will take care of themselves.
The consciousness of a duty performed
gives us music at midnight.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Those things, good Lord, that we pray
for, give us also the grace to
labor for.
To persevere in one's duty and be silent
is the best answer to
misrepresentation.
George Washington (1732-1799)
We are all fellow passengers on the same
planet, and we are all
equally responsible for the happiness and
the well-being of the world
in which we happen to live.
Hendrick Willem Van Loon (1882-1944)
We are too fond of our own will. We want
to be doing what we fancy
mighty things; but the great point is to
do small things, when called
to do them, in a right spirit.
Richard Cecil (1748-1810)
When an archer misses the mark, he turns
and looks for the fault
within himself. Failure to hit the
bull's-eye is never the fault of
the target.
Gilbert Arland
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
You would not think any duty small if you
yourself were great.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
A little thing in hand is worth more than
a great thing in prospect.
Aesop (Fl. C. 550 B.C.)
Do little things as if they were great
because of the majesty of the
Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in you.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
God does not want us to do extraordinary
things; he wants us to do the
ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Charles Gore (1853-1932)
Great events, we often find,
On little things depend,
And very small beginnings
Have oft a mighty end.
It is better to have a little than
nothing.
Publilius Syrus (First Century B.C.)
There is nothing small in the service of
God.
Saint Francis of Sales (1567-1622)
Do not waste time bothering whether you
love your neighbor; act as if
you do. As soon as we do this we find one
of the great secrets. When
you are behaving as if you loved someone,
you will presently come to
love him. If you injure someone you
dislike, you will find yourself
disliking him more. If you do him a good
turn, you will find yourself
disliking him less.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
If my heart is right with God, every
human being is my neighbor.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
If you truly love God, you will love your
neighbor. It does not make
any difference if he loves you or not.
Thomas A. Judge (1868-1933)
If you want to hear the whole truth about
yourself, anger your
neighbor.
Looking through the wrong end of a
telescope is an injustice to the
astronomer, to the telescope, and to the
stars; likewise, looking at
our neighbor's faults instead of the
attributes gives us an incorrect
conception of ourselves, our neighbor,
and our God.
William Arthur Ward (1812-1882)
Love your neighbor, but don't pull down
the hedge.
Swiss Proverb
Some of us ... think to ourselves,
"If I had only been there! How
quick I would have been to help the baby.
I would have washed his
linen. How happy I would have been to go
with the shepherds to see the
Lord lying in the manger!" Yes, we
would! We say that because we know
how great Christ is. But if we had been
there at that time, we would
have done no better than the people of
Bethlehem. Why don't we do it
now? We have Christ in our neighbor.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
The impersonal hand of government can
never replace the helping hand
of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)
The love of our neighbor is the only door
out of the dungeon of self.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
The only time to look down on your
neighbor is when you are bending
over to help.
We are not the better for our
Christianity if our neighbor is the
worse for it.
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next door
neighbor. Hence he comes to us clad in all
the careless terrors of
nature; he is as strange as the stars, as
reckless and indifferent as
the rain. He is man, the most terrible of
the beasts.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
What you wish for your neighbor, that you
ask for yourself. If you
don't wish his good, you ask for your own
death.
Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)
While the spirit of neighborliness was
important on the frontier
because neighbors were so few, it is even
more important now because
our neighbors are so many.
Lady Bird Johnson
Your neighbor is the man who is next to
you at the moment, the man
with whom any business has brought you
into contact.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
Happiness will never come your way as
long as your back is turned on duty.
To be humble to superiors is duty; to
equals, courtesy; to inferiors, nobility.
Duty makes us do things well, but love
makes us do them beautifully.
It is our duty to obey God's commands,
not to direct His counsels.
A reformer sees his duty and overdoes it.
Hard work and devotion to duty will
surely get you a promotion ‑ unless, of course, the boss has a relative
who wants the job.
The trouble with the world is that so
many people who stand up for their rights fall down miserably on their duties.
The value of the Bible doesn't consist in
merely knowing it, but in obeying it.
Many people see their duty in plenty of
time to dodge it.
Some who do their duty as they see it
must have a blind spot.
When duty calls some people are never at
home.
Generally speaking, duty is what we
expect of others.
You can do anything you ought to do.
The fellow who believes he is exerting
himself beyond the call of duty is apt to be a poor judge of distance.
God never imposes a duty without giving
time and strength to perform it.
A man never gets so confused in his
thinking that he can't see the other fellow's duty.
Many people spend more time trying to
dodge duty than would be required to discharge it.
The best way to get rid of your duties is
to discharge them.
Duty is a task we look forward to with
distaste, perform with reluctance, and brag about afterwards.
Some folks who do their duty as they see
it need to consult an eye specialist.
An excuse is a statement given to cover
up for a duty not well done or not done at all.