04...
- It's the bee that fertilises the flower it robs.
- Half of our troubles and those of the world spring from deeds done for the greater glory of Man.
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
- Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Fall in with it and turn it your way.
- If you treat every situation as a life - and - death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
- A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
- Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
- Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
- All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
- The time is right to do what is right.
- Nothing is worth more than this day.
- One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
- ***** I am going to donate my body to science....
----- Science Fiction.
- Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring and devilishly hard to make.
- The trouble with most sound advice is that it's ninety nine percent sound and one percent advice.
- Criticising the bad does not mean you are good.
- Success in life often depends not so much on whom you please but on whom you avoid making angry.
- Do not mourn because the bottle is half empty; rejoice for it is half full.
- Never fight with a really ugly man. He has nothing to lose.
- Suffering is nothing as long as hard life continues.
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Bells are music's laughter.
- If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
- Calculation never made a hero.
- Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is rather like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
- Patience has its limits. Taken too far it's cowardice.
- There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering- and even more difficult.
- Get down on your knees and thank GOD you are on your feet.
- Smile - make the world wonder what you've been up to.
- The test of real commitment is not how we act when all goes well; but how we react to a challenge.
- It is not in unity that strength lies. Strength lies in diversity.
- Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
- Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
- Well begun is half done.
- Silence is not only golden; it's seldom misquoted.
- The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation. Not overturning it.
- Humility is the patience of the strong and the hypocrisy of the weak.
- One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork and learning from failure.
- The reason we make a long story short is so that we can tell another.
- If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
- Talking of bulls is not the same as being in the bullring.
- You cannot climb two trees at the same time just because you have two legs.
- Knowledge is like a garden, if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
- The lazy man will remember he has not planted when his neighbours begin harvesting.
- The man who plants grapes by the roadside, and the one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
- * When you dig a pit for your enemies do not make it too deep as you might be the one to fall into it.
- There is no dignity quite so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means.
- A budget is what you stay within if you go without.
- In the old days a man who saved money was a miser. Nowadays he's a wonder.
- Where knowledge ends, suspicion begins.
- Years ago, when someone wore tackies, it often meant that he couldn't afford shoes. Today, if a person is wearing shoes, he probably can't afford tackies (--- Selma Lehrer).
- * Plenty of US Vietnam veterans are back on holiday, shocked to find their girlfriends have turned 40.
- ** Condoms are not as safe as they're cracked to be. A friend of mine was wearing one and he got run over by a car.
- It is better to be a coward for a minute than be dead for the rest of your life (--- Irish Proverb).
- Too clever is dumb (--- German Proverb).
- When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined (--- Persian Proverb).
- The worst is not knowing: when the next attack will be, and how long it will last.
- Some things have to be believed to be seen (--- Ralph Hodgson).
- You need someone to love while you're looking for someone to love.
- People say you should always put your best foot forward, but which one is it?
- A brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to school.
- ** Weather forecast for tonight: DARK.
- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I am not sure.
- Sex is like a game of bridge. If you have a good hand no partner is needed.
- The Law locks up
Man or Woman
Who steals a Goose
From off the Common.
But leaves the
Greater villain loose
Who steals the Common
From the Goose.
- Noah, with his righteousness only managed to save nine people. There is, however, a man who can save the whole world. His name is JESUS.
- A christian is a person who fails to sin when all the odds of sinning are in that person's favour.
- Everyone can believe in GOD when things are going forward but it takes real faith to believe in GOD when things are going backward.
- Because a man dying of thirst will trade a bag full of diamonds for a glass of water, water is more valuable than diamonds.
- A fool doing foolish things for the second time is like a dog going back to its vomit (--- Proverbs 26vs11).
- There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.
- One of the troubles is that we judge ourselves by our intentions and judge others by their actions.
- It was worthwhile while it lasted.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Hold the precious memories of yesterday within your heart; take pleasure in today in order to create new ones; and as each day unfolds, anticipate the promise of tomorrow.
- If man is moral, moral laws are unnecessary. If man is not moral, moral laws are useless!
- The greatest power is often simple patience.
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
- Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
- The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were
realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
- Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
- Don't expect the government to solve all your problems - "The impersonal hand
of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour."
- Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
- It really hurts when you realise that he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.
- Should I smile cause we're friends.. or cry because that's all we'll ever be?
- Why do roses symbolise love when they all eventually die?
- In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
- Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
- The secret of getting things done is to act!