QUOTES

One-half of our problems come from wanting our way. The other half comes from getting it. Unknown

Poverty does not breed crime, the human heart does! If poverty did breed crime, my mother, father, siblings, and I would have been on the FBI's 10 most wanted list before we were grown. Name withheld.

False friends are like a shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade.  quote by  Christian Bovee

A true friend always stabs you in front.   Oscar Wilde

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.   Ken Hubbard

Two men were talking one day. One said, "My wife talks to herself a lot."
His friend answered, "Mine does too, but she doesn't know it. She thinks I'm listening."

It's impossible for a worthwhile thought to enter your mind through an open mouth.

Keep your eyes open before marriage; Half shut afterwards.   Benjamin Franklin

Every man needs a wife, because many things go wrong that he can't blame on the goverment..

The reason some people don't recognize opportunity is because it often comes  
disguised as as hard  work.

There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say-- unless you insist on saying it..

Our youths love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority --
they show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter in place of exercise..
Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise
when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company,
gobble up food, and tyrannize teachers.   Socrates, c. 400 b.c.

There is as much diginity in plowing a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington

Do something worth remembering. Elvis Presley

Poverty does not breed crime, the human heart does! If poverty did breed crime, my mother, father, siblings, and I would have been on the FBI's 10 most wanted list before we were grown. Name withheld.

Don't apologize for your work. Robert Penn Warren

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain

Thanks cost Nothing. Creole Saying

God, as devout and devoted Southerners are sure, took special pains in creating the South. Jonathan Daniels

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. Billy Graham

Arrogance has its own built-in misery. Billy Graham

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Jefferson

People see God every day; they just don't always recognize him. Pearl Bailey

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows what is good for us. Socrates

There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself,employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. Monta Crane

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. George Herbert

Reaching to Heaven: A farmer asked the district superintendent to assign a pastor to his community. "How big a man do you want?" asked the superintendent? Well, "the man replied, we're not overly particular, but when he's on his knees we'd like him to reach Heaven. Author unknown

The Bible without The Holy Spirit is a sun-dial by Moonlight. D.L.Moody

Final Inspection: God will look you over, not for medals or degrees, but for scars. Edward Sheldon

The Trinity is one God, not so that the Father be the same Person, who is also the Son and the Holy Ghost: But that the Father be the Father, and the Son be the Son, and the Holy Ghost be Holy Ghost, and this Trinity One God. St. Augustine

Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence. John Wesley

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

Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.  Robert Browning

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners. The rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous.  Blaise Pascal

He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.  Sir Roger L'Estrange

God helps the man who won't marry until he finds the perfect woman, and God helps him still more if he finds her.  Benjamin Tillett

When God measures a man. He puts the tape around the heart instead of the head.  Indiana Freemason

Tact is the intelligence of the heart. Anonymous

There is more hope for a self-convicted sinner than there is for a self-conceited saint. Anonymous

You can always tell when a man is a great way from God. When he is always talking about himself, how good he is.  Dwight L.Moody

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.  Thomas Adams

The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake". The five most important words: "You did a good job". The four most important words: "What is your opinion?". The three most important words: "If you please". The two most important words: "Thank you". The least most Important word: " Me".

"Help me never to judge another person until I have walked a mile in his shoes". This is a quote that I heard many times when I was A child. I heard it from my Indian Grandmother who told me that she got it from an Indian prayer that she learned from her people. Different Indian tribes claim this quote.

Keep your eyes on the stars,
and your feet on the ground.
by Theodore Roosevelt
 
Whether you think that you can,
or that you can't, you are usually right.
by Henry Ford
 
Maturity: 
Be able to stick with a job until it is finished.
Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even.
Be able to carry money without spending it.
Do your duty without being supervised.
by Ann Landers
 
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another.
They don't consider it servitude.
by Ann Landers

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
by Ann Landers

Don't accept your dog's admiration
as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
by Ann Landers
 
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something
you haven't thought of yet.
by Ann Landers
 
Too many people today know the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
by Ann Landers

The Lord gave us two ends - 
one to sit on and the other to think with.
Success depends on which one we use the most.
by Ann Landers

Anger is the most impotent of passions. 
It effects nothing it goes about,and hurts the one 
who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
by Carl Sandburg

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens,
but they will not purchase any product,
including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Dave Barry

People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
Dave Barry

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish,
and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry 
 

False friends are like a shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine,
but leaving us when we cross into the shade.  quote by  Christian Bovee

A true friend always stabs you in front.   Oscar Wilde

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.   Ken Hubbard

Two men were talking one day. One said, "My wife talks to herself a lot."
His friend answered, "Mine does too, but she doesn't know it. She thinks I'm listening."

It's impossible for a worthwhile thought to enter your mind through an open mouth.

Keep your eyes open before marriage; Half shut afterwards.   Benjamin Franklin

Every man needs a wife, because many things go wrong that he can't blame on the goverment..

The reason some people don't recognize opportunity is because it often comes  
disguised as as hard  work.

There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say-- unless you insist on saying it..

Our youths love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority --
they show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter in place of exercise..
Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise
when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company,
gobble up food, and tyrannize teachers.   Socrates, c. 400 b.c.
 
False friends are like a shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine,
but leaving us when we cross into the shade.  quote by  Christian Bovee

A true friend always stabs you in front.   Oscar Wilde

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.   Ken Hubbard

Two men were talking one day. One said, "My wife talks to herself a lot."
His friend answered, "Mine does too, but she doesn't know it. She thinks I'm listening."

It's impossible for a worthwhile thought to enter your mind through an open mouth.

Keep your eyes open before marriage; Half shut afterwards.   Benjamin Franklin

Every man needs a wife, because many things go wrong that he can't blame on the goverment..

The reason some people don't recognize opportunity is because it often comes  
disguised as as hard  work.

There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say-- unless you insist on saying it..

Our youths love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority --
they show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter in place of exercise..
Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise
when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company,
gobble up food, and tyrannize teachers.   Socrates, c. 400 b.c.

Maturity:
Be able to stick with a job until it is finished.
Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even.
Be able to carry money without spending it.
Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers


Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual
is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife,
you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Ann Landers

The Lord gave us two ends - 
one to sit on and the other to think with.
Success depends on which one we use the most.
Ann Landers

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, 
but is a stab at the health of human society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson                     
                         

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