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Grandma Lily's Wit & Wisdom |
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| 4/15/04 | ||
| Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck | A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. Prov 17.22 | |
| The wishbone will never replace the backbone. Will Henry |
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The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children
of Israel to go forward!" Exod 14.15 |
| Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca | ||
| One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of
the shore for a very long time. André Gide |
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? Frank Scully |
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| The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. William Shakespeare | If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Rom 12.20-21 | |
| NEVER ask God to grant you all that you deserve. He might give it to you. | You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. Jam 4.3 | |
| Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. | |
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Jam 2.15-16 |
| If you have a lot, give of your wealth. If you have only a little, give of your time. Granny | ||
| Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. Frederick W. Faber | ||
| Wait below for he who is above. Swahili Proverb |
Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Christ Jesus Luke 18.14b | |
| Don't be humble. You're not that great. Golda Meir | Humility is like underwear -- essential, but indecent if it shows. Helen Nielson | |
| Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Howard W. Newton | A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. Ben Franklin | |
| Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. Chinese proverb | |
Two are better than one, |
| Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow. Swedish proverb | ||
| Real friendship is shown in time of trouble. Prosperity is full of friends. Euripides | ||
| A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. Frances Ward Weller | ||
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Love suffers long and is kind. |
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It is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them. Agatha Christie |
| Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is
essential to your own. Robert Heinlein |
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| People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. Mary Crowley | ||
| Only two things are infinite -- the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein |
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Did it work? David ...was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath. So he changed his behavior before him, feigned madness, scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva fall down on his beard. 1 Sam 21.12-13 |
| We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here
for, I don't know. W.H. Auden |
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs! Sam Goldwyn | |
| A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. | BUT... A truthful answer is a kiss on the lips. Prov 24.26 |
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| Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. | Opportunities are never lost; someone else will take the ones you miss. | |
| "Error: Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue." |  |
"Windows has detected the mouse has moved. Please restart your system for changes to take effect." |
| Bessie:
"Winston, you're drunk." Winston: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober." Winston Churchill to Bessie Braddock, Member of Parliament |
"No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest." Winston Churchill - on being told that his fly was open | |
| Never sneak up behind the elephant, never eat the yellow snow, and never ask God for patience. | ...tribulation worketh patience Rom 5.3b | |
| "Google" --a search engine name that is based on "googol," the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. | "Status quo" - Latin for the mess we're in. Jeve Moorman |
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| The trouble with using experience as a teacher is that the final exam often comes first, and THEN the lesson. | Experience teaches you to recognize a mistake when you've made it again. | |
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Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery
never changes. |
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Some folks think they hurt the church when they get mad and quit coming. Wrong! A tree is never hurt when the dead leaves fall off. |
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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. 1 John 2.19 |
| The proofreader's lament: When everything's right, nobody notices. |
Some men were born for great things, Some were born for small; Some — it is not recorded Why they were born at all. Will Carleton |
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An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support. John Buchan You can't even spell church without U. |
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| Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap! You choose. |
I majored in liberal arts. |
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| Sticking your nose into someone else's quarrel is like picking up
a growling Doberman by its ears. Prov 26.17, in Granny's words |
When you're in trouble, putting your trust in an unfaithful man is
like chewing meat with a broken tooth, or running a race with your foot out of joint. Prov 25.19, in Granny's words |
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Why do croutons come in airtight packages? They're just stale bread to begin with. | |
 Not long after the beginning, Satan created an idiot. That was for practice. Then he created bioterrorists. |
As to TV newscasts of Osama Bin whozit... When you look in his eyes, don't you get the odd feeling that someone else is driving? |
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| Life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. | It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill | |
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Tips for Americans traveling abroad:
Mark Russell |
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses
satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. Jawaharlal Nehru |
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| The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing. Edmund Burke |
When displaying Old Glory's Red, White & Blue, REMEMBER... These Colors Don't Run! |
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| It takes a woman 20 years to make a man of her son, and another woman 20 minutes to make a fool of him. Helen Rowland |  |
The lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood Prov 5.3-4a |
| Too clever is dumb. German proverb |
The reverse side also has a reverse side. Japanese proverb |
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| Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. Benjamin Disraeli |
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Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace Prov 17.28a |
| He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next off-ramp. | Como frijoles? (Spanish for How have you bean?) | |
| An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priests. Spanish proverb |
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Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.
And all the people shall say, "Amen!" Deu 27.16 |
| One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert |
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| The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that
food came out of his nose. Garrison Keillor |
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Never raise your hand to your children. It leaves your midsection unprotected. Robert Orben |
| A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. Kenneth Tynan | |
And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Mt 7.3 |
| Better that a girl has beauty than brains, because boys see better than they think. | A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. Japanese proverb |
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| People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do. | The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. Robert Frost | |
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