Eyes on the Prize

4The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

1 Timothy 1:5

Mae on Marriage

4Don't marry a man to reform him. That's what reform schools are for.

-Mae West

Learn

4I see, I forget.
I hear, I remember.
I do, I understand.

-Chinese Proverb

A Child's Garden of Verses

4In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Lucre

4Wealth is the smallest thing on the earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

-Martin Luther

And then...

4If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

-Woody Allen

Swedish Math

4Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.

-Swedish proverb

sooner or later

4Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.

-Proverbs 26:27

Palindrome (same backwards as frontwards)

4No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.

-unknown

Summertime

4The summer holidays! The magic sound! The mere mention of them used to send shivers of joy rippling over my skin.

-Roald Dahl

Son of Adam

4There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

-Mark Twain

Anagrams (same letters used for both)

4dormitory: dirty room
4snooze alarms: Alas, no more Z's
4slot machines: cash lost in 'em
4punishment: nine thumps
4dynamite: may end it
4Jim Morrison: Mr. Mojo Risin'
4suggestion: it eggs us on
4premeditations: at times I ponder
4presbyterians: britney spears
4the nudist colony: no untidy clothes
4Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott: a novel by a Scottish writer

-unknown

Try this at home

4Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

-Sigmund Freud

Soothers

4Life's most soothing things are a child's "good night" and sweet music.

-Thomas Edison

The Spirit and the Bride say "Come"

4You make known to me the path of life; in your presence is fulness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

-Psalm 16:11

Birfday

4Twenty-two years ago today my daughter Brae was born. She is a unique and fascinating creature. Here is a list of words to describe her:

creative
photogenic
altogether lovely
colorful
crafty
imaginative
observant
determined
discerning
devoted
tender-hearted
poetic
wordsmith
notetaker
musical
rhythmic
lithe
wise
diligent
fun-loving
big sister
brave
daring
adventurous
mirthful
graceful
coordinated
quirky
roller skatey
photo boothy
health conscious

Please feel free to add to this list if you know and love Brae.

-Damien

Calvin and Hobbes

4You know Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

-Calvin (Bill Watterson)

Behold

4Love is a great beautifier.

-Louisa May Alcott

Somebody stop me

4Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

-Socrates

Before and After

4Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

-Benjamin Franklin

Hollow Log

4If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.

-Jack Handey

Pinnacle

4You have exalted above all things your name and your word.

-Psalm 138:2

break it down

4You do not really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother.

-Albert Einstein

Oh boy

4You never wait too long when you wait for something good.

-Swedish Proverb

Inner Pirate

4Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

-H. L. Menchen

Every Tongue

4For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

-Isaiah 11:9

More than mere

4The knowledge of God is very far from the love of him.

-Blaise Pascal

Molded

4We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

-Goethe

Allegiance

4Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

-C. S. Lewis

New Philosophy

4I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

-Charlie Brown

Swing Low

4Every Christian has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

-Charles Spurgeon

Success

4Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchill

Lifter

4You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

-Psalm 30:11-12

Bumper Wisdom

4Isn't a smoking area in a restaurant like a weewee area in a swimming pool?

-bumper sticker

Imagine

4The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.

-Francis Schaeffer

Troubled

4Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

-Plato

Pitiful Evil

4The thought pierced him that, in the end, the Shadow was a small and passing thing; there was Light and High Beauty forever beyond its reach.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Hot Air

4The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

-Ray Bradbury

Coffee

4Life is one long process of getting tired.

-Samuel Butler

Drink and See

4With You is the fountain of life, in Your light we see light.

-Psalm 36:9

Handiwork

4In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

-Aristotle

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4Never lose a holy curiosity.

-Albert Einstein

Vogue

4Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

-Oscar Wilde

YepYepYep

4As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly.

-Amelia Earhart

Onward

4However bigoted the announcement may sound, the Christian can be satisfied with nothing less than a Christian organization of society.

-T. S. Eliot

On second thought

4I've always thought that I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well actually, I'd like it to say figment.

-Andy Warhol

Accidentally on Purpose

4They deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed.

-2 Peter 3:5

Nutters

4Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

-Diogenes

Shucks

4I have been complimented myself a great many times and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.

-Mark Twain

Press on

4By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

-Charles Spurgeon

Vale of Sniffles

4Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

-O. Henry

Spore Moonerisms

4Put your booze under the shed.
4plat-billed duckypuss
4full noodle frontity

-new hose?

The Wind in the Willows

4Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

-Kenneth Grahame

Most High

4Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
who looks far down on the heavens and the earth?

-Psalm 113:5-6 (ESV)

Boister

4A family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

-Martin Mull

Diurnal

4It is not half as important to burn the midnight oil as it is to be awake in the daytime.

-E. W. Elmore

Who Me?

4Everybody in here's innocent. Didn't you know that?

-The Shawshank Redemption

Frethren

4My glory was I had such friends.

-William Butler Yeats

Shhh

4Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

-Jimi Hendrix

Tarry

4To gaze is to think.

-Salvador Dali

Faithful Wounds

4Let a righteous man strike me - it is a kindness.

-Psalm 141:5

World of Wonders

4The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Vantage

4A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

-Ansel Adams

Put 'em up

4Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Sidetrack

4Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach that man to use the internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

-Unknown

Holy Holy Holy

4If we put happiness before holiness we are doomed to misery.

-D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Stats

4There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.

-Unknown

Fat Souls

4Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

-Isaiah 55:2

Never Mind

4A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

-Bob Hope

Stalled

4Did you ever stop to think and forget to start again?

-Winnie the Pooh

Oxymorons

4Pretty Ugly
4Hot Chili
4Plastic Glasses

-Unknown

'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