A joyful and pleasant thing it is
to be grateful.

-Book of Common Prayer



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A diplomat is a man who always
remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age.

-Robert Frost



The strength of the church is not
in numbers, but in truth.

-Jared Wilson



To be content with what one has
is the greatest and truest of riches.

-Cicero



We must be emptied
of that which fills us,
that we may be filled
with that of which we
are empty.

-Augustine



Are you green and growing or
ripe and rotting?

-Ray Kroc



With money in your pocket you are
wise, and you are handsome, and
you sing well too.

-Yiddish proverb



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




Children, like canoes, are more easy to
control if paddled from the rear.




Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way.

-Psalm 2:12



The doorstep to the temple of wisdom
is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

-C. H. Spurgeon 



The self is more distant
than any star.

-G. K. Chesterton



Two things a man cannot hide:
that he is drunk, and that he is
in love.

-Antiphanes



There's never an end for the sea.

-Samuel Beckett

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When in doubt wear red.

-Bill Blass



Man's smallness is great.

-Tadeusz Gicgier



The horses are prepared for
battle, but the victory belongs
to the Lord.

-Proverbs 21:31



The world is nothing but chatter.

-Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)



Architecture is the art of how to
waste space.

-Philip Johnson



Early morning cheerfulness
can be extremely obnoxious.

-William Feather



Though marriage makes man
and wife one flesh, it leaves them
still two fools.

-William Congreve



Love is a condition in which the
happiness of another person is
essential to your own.

-Robert Heinlein



Acting is the most minor of gifts
and not a very high-class way to
earn a living.

-Katherine Hepburn



'Tis paradise when Thou art
here, if Thou depart 'tis hell.

-Isaac Watts



Make hay while the
sun shines.

Let the laying hold of Christ as my propitiation be the unvarying initial act of every morning.

-Thomas Chalmers



We are all born mad. 
Some remain so.

-Samuel Beckett

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It is much easier to be
critical than to be correct.

-Benjamin Disraeli



Come forth into the light of
things, let nature be your
teacher.

-William Wordsworth



You can give without loving, but
you cannot love without giving.

-Amy Carmichael





He hangs the earth on nothing.

-Job 26:7





It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. 
Early or late he's always the same fellow. 
Always good-tempered, always glad to
see you, always sorry when you go.

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind In The Willows



I have made it a rule
never to smoke more
than one cigar at a time.

-Mark Twain



Art washes from the soul
the dust of everyday life.

-Pablo Picasso

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Time ripens all things;
no man is born wise.

-Miguel de Cervantes



A true friend stabs you in the front.

-Oscar Wilde



Love must be as much a
light as it is a flame.

-Henry David Thoreau

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All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

-Luke 2:47



It is a sobering thought that when
Mozart was my age he had been
dead for three years.

-Tom Lehrer



What we play is life.

-Louis Armstrong



His mercies are new every morning.

-Lamentations 3:23



The past is always a rebuke
to the present.

-Robert Penn Warren



What I dream of is
an art of balance.

-Henri Matisse



The poets have been
mysteriously silent on
the subject of cheese.

-G. K. Chesterton



For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink.

-John 6:55



I just don't know what
to do with myself.

-White Stripes (1997-2011)



A good meal ought to begin
with hunger.

-French Proverb



We know well only what
we are deprived of.

-Francois Mauriac



The mob has many heads
but no brains.

-Thomas Fuller



It is a mistake to try to look
too far ahead.  The chain of
destiny can only be grasped
one link at a time.

-Winston Churchill