'Twas Ever Thus

4If it's new it's not true; if it's true it's not new.

-Doug Wilson

Potted Meat

4A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

-Samuel Johnson

Checklist

4One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

-Goethe

Plink

4Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as fine dust on the scales.

-Isaiah 40:15

Eureka

4One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

-A. A. Milne

Pangram
(uses every letter)

4Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

-Unknown

Better Yet

4However many blessings we expect from God, his infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

-John Calvin

Dream it on through

4It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

-W. Somerset Maugham

Hey Hey We're the Monkeys

4We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.

-Stephen Hawking

Forth and Back

4There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go except all over the place.

-E. B. White

Generational Linkage

4He commanded our fathers to teach their children, that the next generation might know his word, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell it to their children, so that they should set their hope in God.

-Psalm 78:5-7

Spoonerisms

4You have very mad banners
4Nothing but a lack of pies
4Go help me sod

-Unknown

Bottoms Up

4Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air...

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

College

4No period of my life has been of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

-Horatio Alger

Dogwash

4Unlike cats, dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

-Dave Barry

Just So

4To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

-Confucius

Considerations

4It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Dependents

4What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

-1 Corinthians 4:7

Golden Slumbers

4I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.

-Ernest Hemingway

Thank you

4Applause is the only appreciated interruption.

-Arnold Glasgow

Heaven

4To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

-Jonathan Edwards

Ansel Adage

4Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

-Ansel Adams

Stenchy

4I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

-John Calvin

Palindrome

4Gary knits a stinky rag.

-Unknown

Boundaries

4Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

-G. K. Chesterton

Computer

4A computer once beat me at chess. But it was no match for me at kick boxing.

-Emo Philips

The Basics

4Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

-Cicero

Day & Night

4Sunlight is painting. Moonlight is sculpture.

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Stubbed Toes

4Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

-Winston Churchill