04...

  1. It's the bee that fertilises the flower it robs.
  2. Half of our troubles and those of the world spring from deeds done for the greater glory of Man.
  3. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
  4. Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
  5. Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Fall in with it and turn it your way.
  6. If you treat every situation as a life - and - death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
  7. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
  8. Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
  9. Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
  10. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
  11. The time is right to do what is right.
  12. Nothing is worth more than this day.
  13. One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
  14. ***** I am going to donate my body to science....
    ----- Science Fiction.
  15. Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring and devilishly hard to make.
  16. The trouble with most sound advice is that it's ninety nine percent sound and one percent advice.
  17. Criticising the bad does not mean you are good.
  18. Success in life often depends not so much on whom you please but on whom you avoid making angry.
  19. Do not mourn because the bottle is half empty; rejoice for it is half full.
  20. Never fight with a really ugly man. He has nothing to lose.
  21. Suffering is nothing as long as hard life continues.
  22. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
  23. Bells are music's laughter.
  24. If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
  25. Calculation never made a hero.
  26. 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.
  27. Patience has its limits. Taken too far it's cowardice.
  28. There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering- and even more difficult.
  29. Get down on your knees and thank GOD you are on your feet.
  30. Smile - make the world wonder what you've been up to.
  31. The test of real commitment is not how we act when all goes well; but how we react to a challenge.
  32. It is not in unity that strength lies. Strength lies in diversity.
  33. Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
  34. Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
  35. Well begun is half done.
  36. Silence is not only golden; it's seldom misquoted.
  37. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation. Not overturning it.
  38. Humility is the patience of the strong and the hypocrisy of the weak.
  39. One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
  40. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork and learning from failure.
  41. The reason we make a long story short is so that we can tell another.
  42. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
  43. There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
  44. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
  45. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
  46. Talking of bulls is not the same as being in the bullring.
  47. You cannot climb two trees at the same time just because you have two legs.
  48. Knowledge is like a garden, if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
  49. The lazy man will remember he has not planted when his neighbours begin harvesting.
  50. The man who plants grapes by the roadside, and the one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
  51. * When you dig a pit for your enemies do not make it too deep as you might be the one to fall into it.
  52. There is no dignity quite so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means.
  53. A budget is what you stay within if you go without.
  54. In the old days a man who saved money was a miser. Nowadays he's a wonder.
  55. Where knowledge ends, suspicion begins.
  56. 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).
  57. * Plenty of US Vietnam veterans are back on holiday, shocked to find their girlfriends have turned 40.
  58. ** 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.
  59. It is better to be a coward for a minute than be dead for the rest of your life (--- Irish Proverb).
  60. Too clever is dumb (--- German Proverb).
  61. When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined (--- Persian Proverb).
  62. The worst is not knowing: when the next attack will be, and how long it will last.
  63. Some things have to be believed to be seen (--- Ralph Hodgson).
  64. You need someone to love while you're looking for someone to love.
  65. People say you should always put your best foot forward, but which one is it?
  66. 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.
  67. ** Weather forecast for tonight: DARK.
  68. I used to think I was indecisive, but now I am not sure.
  69. Sex is like a game of bridge. If you have a good hand no partner is needed.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. A christian is a person who fails to sin when all the odds of sinning are in that person's favour.
  73. Everyone can believe in GOD when things are going forward but it takes real faith to believe in GOD when things are going backward.
  74. Because a man dying of thirst will trade a bag full of diamonds for a glass of water, water is more valuable than diamonds.
  75. A fool doing foolish things for the second time is like a dog going back to its vomit (--- Proverbs 26vs11).
  76. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.
  77. One of the troubles is that we judge ourselves by our intentions and judge others by their actions.
  78. It was worthwhile while it lasted.
  79. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
  80. 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.
  81. If man is moral, moral laws are unnecessary. If man is not moral, moral laws are useless!
  82. The greatest power is often simple patience.
  83. 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.
  84. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
  85. 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.
  86. We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
  87. 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.
  88. Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
  89. Don't expect the government to solve all your problems - "The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour."
  90. Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
  91. It really hurts when you realise that he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.
  92. Should I smile cause we're friends.. or cry because that's all we'll ever be?
  93. Why do roses symbolise love when they all eventually die?
  94. In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
  95. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
  96. They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
  97. No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
  98. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
  99. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
  100. The secret of getting things done is to act!
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