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One pair of ears draws a hundred tongues.
The ear is the road to the heart.
French proverb
We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more
and talk the less.
Greek proverb
A man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find,
creates them.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
A thick skin is a gift from God.
Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very
often a subtle form of pious self-idolatry because it is obsessed with the
method and not with the Master.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
I will go anywhere-provided it be forward.
David Livingstone (1813-1873)
If you don't invest much, defeat doesn't hurt and winning
is not
exciting.
Dick Vermeil
Recognizing that our cause is, and will be, combated by
mighty,
determined and relentless forces, we will, trusting in him
who is the
Prince of Peace, meet argument with argument, misjudgment
with
patience, denunciations with kindness, and all our difficulties
and
dangers with prayer.
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898)
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a man's
determination.
Tommy Lasorda (1927- )
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his
shoulders the lame
man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep
on striving
until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath
... or
simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with
God's help.
Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be
great.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Will is power.
German Proverb
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize
you.
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us ... is to
feel ourselves
to be at home here on earth. As long as we are aliens we
cannot forget
our true homeland.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
The poetry of earth is never dead;
The poetry of earth is ceasing never.
John Keats (1795-1821)
Ah, how unjust to nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
Edward Young (1683-1765)
All of creation God gives to humankind to use. If this
privilege is
misused, God's justice permits creation to punish
humanity.
Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
Every flower of the field, every fibre of a plant, every
particle of
an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and
can-if duly
considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.
Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1649-1697)
Everything is perfect coming from the hands of the
Creator, everything
degenerates in the hands of man.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
I shot an arrow in the air-and it stuck.
It is God's world still. It has been given to man not
absolutely, but
in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God;
given-may we
not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his
great garden,
and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate
it."
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her
business
better than we do.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Man is a complex being; he makes deserts bloom and lakes
die.
Gil Stern
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the
Creator. Keep it,
guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares
for men.
Destroy it and man is destroyed.
Alan Stewart Paton (1903- )
The laws given in the Bible include a scheme for the
treatment of the
earth.... \reference{Leviticus 25{Leviticus 25 is the
great classic
on the rights of the earth.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The pagans do not know God and love only the earth. The
Jews know the
true God and love only the earth. The Christians know the
true God and
do not love the earth.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The sun, the moon, and the stars would have disappeared
long ago had
they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
The world is disgracefully managed; one hardly knows to
whom to complain.
Ronald Firbank (1886-1926)
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need, but
not for man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
We are told that when Jehovah created the world, he saw
that it was
good. What would he say now?
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
If the Bible agreed with modern science, it would soon be
out of date
because, in the very nature of things, modern science is
bound to
change.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
In its early stages, science seemed at odds with religion;
but this
was merely a token of its immaturity. The more familiar
story is that
of scientists who become increasingly aware of the mystery
of the
universe and come to religion through knowledge of the
limitations of
science. Indeed, how can those who play with the building
blocks of
the universe, its atoms and electrons and genes, fail to
be touched by
awe? Every victory of science reveals more clearly a
divine design in
nature, a remarkable conformity in all things, from the
infinitesimal
to the infinite.
David Sarnoff (1891-1971)
One thing I have learned in a long life-that all our
science, measured
against reality, is primitive and childlike.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We
have guided
missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith and
inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a
basis of
faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of
natural laws-a
thing which can never be demonstrated.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
Science, the sweet talking goddess that but a short time
ago smilingly
disposed of the Bible as a trustworthy guide and took the
world by the
hand to lead it into a man-made millennium, has turned out
to be a
dragon capable of destroying that same world with a flick
of her fiery tail.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Study the sciences in the light of the truth, that is-as
before God;
for their business is to show the truth, that is to say,
God
everywhere. Write nothing, say nothing, think nothing that
you cannot
believe to be true before God.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
Within the last century man has leaped ahead in scientific
achievement
but has lagged behind morally, with the result that he is
now
technically capable of destroying the world and morally
incapable of
restraining himself from doing so.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
'Twas Easter Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
Henry
Because he lives I can face tomorrow,
Because he lives all fear is gone.
Because I know he holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because he lives.
William and Gloria Gaither
But because he was once emptied I am each day refilled;
My spirit-arteries pulse with the vital red of love;
Poured out, it is his life that now pumps through my own
heart's core.
He bled, and died, and I have been transfused.
Luci Shaw (1928- )
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour, and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Ride on! Ride on in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die;
Bow thy meek head to mortal pain,
Then take, O God, thy power and reign.
Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)
Spring bursts today,
For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.
Christina
The Easter bunny never rose again.
S. Rickly Christian (1953- )
The seed of God stirred, shoved, and sprouted. The ground
trembled,
and the rock of the tomb tumbled. And the flower of Easter
blossomed.
Max L. Lucado (1955- )
Tomb, thou shalt not hold him longer;
Death is strong, but life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right;
Faith and hope triumphant say,
Christ will rise on Easter Day.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Welcome happy morning, age to age shall say;
Hell today is vanquished, heaven is won today.
Saint Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus of
Easy come, easy go.
The girl who is easy to get may be hard to take.
F. Wisely
Easier said than done.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do,
do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled
ox and
hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:17
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you
like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
The easiest way to start an argument these days is to get
two economists together.
Economists predict the year ahead will reward hard
workers. What a frightening outlook for many!
An economist is a man who figures out tomorrow why the
things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
We could get along better with fewer economists and more
economizers.
An economist usually has a plan to do something with
somebody else's money.
Economists now say we move in cycles instead of running
in circles. It may sound better, but it means the same thing.
An economist can tell you what to do with your money after
you've done something else with it.
The average economist thinks he knows more about money
than the people who have it.
An economist in
words, "Here it is and there it goes."
Economists say we must devalue the dollar. What do they
think Congress has been doing the past twenty years?
An economist talks about something he doesn't understand and
tries to make you think it's your fault.
An economist is uncertain about the future and hazy about
the present.
Economists tell us that we may have to devalue the
dollar. What do they think Congress has been doing for the past twenty‑five
or thirty years?
Millions of Americans are nervous wrecks. They're afraid
the President will devalue trading stamps at any moment.
Scientists are working on the ultimate economy car. It
will just sit in the driveway and impress the neighbors.
Owning a compact car can be very economical. If you go
out with another couple, you have to use their car.
There comes a time when a nation, as well as an
individual, must choose between tightening the belt or losing the pants.
A congressman is always in favor of economy, but not when
it involves his own district.
Perhaps what's wrong with our economy is that there isn't
any.
The only part of our economy that seems to be looking up
is living costs.
Our economy has reached the point where a counterfeiter
can't even make a profit.
The changing economy has made bill collectors of just
about everybody.
Experts say our economy is bottoming out. Some of us
already know that by the patches on the seats of our pants.
The more government in the economy, the less economy in
the government.
Many people don't start economizing until they run out of
money.
Have you noticed how delicately balanced the economy is?
The minute auto prices go down, gasoline prices go up.
Economizing to some people is not working hard enough to
need a deodorant.
The economy is not as bad as we are led to believe. Many
merchants report this year's going‑out‑of‑business sales are
much better than last year's.
Economy size means large in soap and small in automobiles.
The secret of economy is to live as cheaply the day after
payday as you did the day before.
The economy is as confusing as a cross‑eyed Ping‑Pong
player. The stock market keeps going down and the supermarket keeps going up.
We never knew what real extravagance was until we had this
so‑called planned economy.
Economizing is easier when you're broke.
Don't cheat the Lord and call it economy.
We never knew what real extravagance was until we had this
so‑called planned economy.
It is difficult to predict the future of an economy in
which it takes more brains to figure out the tax on our income than it does to
earn it.
Political economy are two words that should be divorced on
the grounds of incompatibility.
Our legislators would practice more economy if they
weren't so out of practice.
Modern political theory seems to hold that the best way to
keep the economy in the pink is to run the government in the red.
It is poor economy to cut down on schools and use the money
later on jails and reformatories.
Some practice economy only with the truth.
The economy is moving so slow these days that the Postal
Service is getting jealous.
Our present economy is terrible. We're making more and
more dollars and less and less money.
The way the American economy is going, we'll soon have a
system of checks and bounces.
How can political candidates discuss the economy when
there isn't any?
Most people might practice economy if they had something
left to practice with.
The trouble with today's managed economy is the
mismanagement.
Many men are able to solve big problems at the office, but
are unable to settle little ones at home.
School and education should not be confused; it is only school
that can be made easy.
It's said that society will achieve the kind of education
it deserves. Heaven help us if this is true!
It's not so much what is poured into the student, but what
is planted, that really counts.
As an educational device, TV rates above everything else.
No nation in history has ever known as much as we do about detergents and
deodorants.
A balanced economy is one in which there are as many
people working as there are striking.
Economy is defined as a reduction in some other fellow's
salary.
If you want economy, never let an economic question get
into politics.
The only thing wrong with our economy is that nobody wants
to economize.
Planned economy is fast becoming calculated extravagance.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse
student.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will
Educate a man and you educate an individual--educate a
woman and
you educate a family.
Agnes Cripps
Surely the shortest commencement address in history--and
for me one
of the most memorable--was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde,
president of
graduating class to these three ideals: "Know
yourself--Socrates.
Control yourself-- Cicero. Give yourself--Christ."
Walter T. Tatara
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness
about an
illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the
noblest
expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to
get
along without education. Education appears to be the thing
that
enables a man to get along without the use of his
intelligence.
A. E. Wiggan
No one can become really educated without having pursued
some study
in which he took no interest. For it is part of education
to interest
ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T. S. Eliot
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of
ignorance
it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the
ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought
to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that
ought to be
learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is
probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Huxley
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without
losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that
education
is a preparation for life.
Northrop Frye
The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world
if they
had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
Heinrich Heine
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to
the
individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner
Fathers send their sons to college either because they
went to
college, or because they didn't.
L. L. Hendren
All learning has an emotional base.
Plato
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek proverb
If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.
Derek Bok
It is the studying that you do after your school days that
really
counts. Otherwise you know only that which everyone else
knows.
Henry L. Doherty
The purpose of education is to teach oneself how to study
on their own.
R. E. Phillips
Educate men without religion and you make them but clever
devils.
Duke of
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to
drive; easy
to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Let's all sympathize with the poor girl who spent four
years learning how to behave in polite society and the rest of her life trying
to locate it.
An aged grandfather explained why he reads the Bible
several hours every day, "You might say I am cramming for my final
examination."
Many boys are flunking geometry. They just don't know the
angles.
Small children start to school these days with a big
advantage. They already know two letters of the alphabet ‑ TV.
Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong
lesson and learn something he wasn't supposed to.
It's very difficult to teach children the alphabet these
days. They think V comes right after T.
Teaching children to count is not as important as teaching
them what counts.
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to
learn after he got it.
In the old days students went to college to get an
education from the professors, but now it seems like some students think they
ought to educate the professors.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without
an education than to have an education without common sense.
Education is a funny thing. At eighteen we knew all the
answers ‑ forty years later even the questions confuse us.
Among the few things more expensive than an education
these days is the lack of it.
A person should have enough education so he doesn't have
to look up to anyone. He should also have enough to be wise enough not to look
down on anyone.
Some folks are so highly educated they can bore you on any
subject.
A good education is important. It enables you to pick out
the most important things to worry about.
Education is what folks have left after they've forgotten
most of what they learned in school.
If you get a good education, you can become prosperous ‑
if you marry a rich widow.
Education is a wonderful thing but it doesn't go far
enough. It merely teaches a man how to speak, not when.or how long. And neither
does it teach him exactly when to shut up.
Everybody should get at least a high school elation ‑
even if they already know every‑ g
Don't call it education unless it has taught you life's
true values.
A person isn't educated unless he has learned how little
he already knows.
If you think getting an education is expensive, try not
getting one.
Abraham Lincoln had great difficulty getting an education ‑
but what can you expect from a guy who didn't play football or basketball?
Since the advent of sex education, the old fellow who
drives the local school bus can't tell whether the kids are talking dirty or
discussing their lesson assignment!
Adult education got its start in a household with teen‑age
children.
Education enables a person to get into more intelligent
trouble.
The least expensive education is to profit from the
mistakes of others ‑ and ourselves.
Education is what you get from reading the small print in
a contract. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
All true education is a delayed‑action bomb,
assembled in the classrooms for explosion at a later date.
One way to get an education in a hurry is to drive a
school bus.
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
An educated person is one who knows a great deal and says
little about it.
Education pays less when you are an educator.
Those who don't read have no advantage over those who
can't.
Many a brilliant young man has his BA and MA, but he's
still living with his PA.
Many people don't know what an education could do for them
because they've never tried it.
An educated person is one who knows how to be ignorant
intelligently.
The chief benefit of education is to discover how little
we know.
Education should include knowledge of what to do with it.
An educated man will sit up all night and worry over
things a fool never dreamed of.
Education can't make us all leaders ‑ but it can
teach us which leader to follow.
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of
change the rest of your life.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
An educated man is one who has finally discovered that
there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.
Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no
known cure for a big head.
It is not the I.Q. but the I WILL that is important in
education.
A person with a reservoir of knowledge is not well‑educated
unless he knows when to turn the spigot on and off.
No man is fully educated until he learns to read himself.
It's what we learn after we know it all that really
counts.
May education never become as expensive as ignorance.
The true object of education should be to train one to
think clearly and act rightly.
The businessman is coming to realize that education is to
business what fertilizer is to farming.
The money saved this year on education will be spent later
on jails and reformatories.
Speaking of higher education, here's hoping it doesn't go
much higher.
It's a pity so many people get college training without
getting an education.
Education is not a head full of facts, but knowing how and
where to find facts.
It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what
is planted.
You can always spot an educated man. His views are the
same as yours.
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it
teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a
life.
As an educational institution, nothing beats the sock
market.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in
adversity.
The trick is to get education out of politics and get it
into politicians.
Education is going forward from cocksure ignorance to
thoughtful uncertainty.
Many people were blue and down in the dumps before they
became educated. Now they are depressed and despondent.
Education helps you earn more. But not many school
teachers can prove it.
Sometimes an adult education begins with a teen‑age
marriage.
If a person has no education he is forced to use his
brains.
Education means developing the mind, not stuffing the
memory.
Not all educated people are intelligent.
By nature all men are much alike, but by education they
become different.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but
unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
True education enrolls men at the cradle and graduates
them at the grave.
Education makes people easy to lead but difficult to
drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
An intellectual is so smart he doesn't understand the
obvious.
Education is knowing what you want, knowing where to get
it, and knowing what to do with it after you get it.
We'll be in trouble as long as we pay the best professors
less than the worst football coach.
At the rate we're going, the day may come when everybody
has a college degree and nobody has an education.
Education is one commodity of which we can never have a
surplus.
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a
reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
Education is something you get when your father sends you
to college, but it isn't complete until you send your own son.
The roots of education are sometimes bitter, but the
fruits are sweet.
Perhaps sex education does have a place in our schools. If
that won't get the kids to read, nothing will.
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can
separate reality from illusion.
We've had adult education for several thousand years. It's
called marriage.
Experience has been described as "Compulsory
Education."
A highbrow is one who is educated beyond his intelligence.
A hypochondriac is now attending a medical college in
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
The only known cure for ignorance is education.
A little learning may be a dangerous thing but it's still
safer than total ignorance.
The difference between education and intelligence is that
intelligence will make you a living.
Nothing makes a little knowledge as dangerous as
examination time.
Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others
just gargle.
Only hungry minds can become educated.
The mind is like the stomach. It's not how much you put
into it that counts, but how much it digests.
If people learn from their mistakes, many are getting a
fantastic education.
A hundred mistakes are a liberal education ‑ if you
learn something from each one.
The best way to stop kids from seeing dirty movies is to
label them "Educational."
When the commencement orator tells the graduating class
that the world is their oyster, he should also explain the difficulty of
cracking the shell.
An efficiency expert is smart enough to tell you how to
run your own business, and too smart to start one of his own.
The efficiency expert is a man whose work, if it were done
by a woman, would be called nagging.
A layman can't understand why efficiency experts don't go
into business for themselves and monopolize the world.
The real efficiency expert is the woman who finds what she
wants in her handbag at the first swoop.
An efficiency expert is a man hired by an executive who is
too tenderhearted to fire his own employees.
Efficiency experts can cope with everybody's troubles, but
not with their own.
The average efficiency expert is a person who has no
business of his own to wreck.
An efficiency expert's idea of lowering costs is to cut
the other fellow's salary.
The world's work must be done by some of us. We can't all
be politicians and efficiency experts.
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with
people who
attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to
succeed.
In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
Put all your eggs in one basket--and watch the basket.
Mark Twain
He who treads on eggs must tread lightly.
German proverb
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
Latin proverb
He who is full of himself, is likely to be quite empty.
When a man tries himself, the verdict is in his favor.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a very small
package.
The beauty of
A bachelor usually wants one single thing in life ‑
himself!
Egotism is that quality which causes a person to think
he's in the groove when he's actually in a rut.
One way to deflate your ego is to read the want ads in the
newspapers and discover all the jobs you're not equipped to handle.
Egotism is what makes other people think they're as
intelligent as we know we are.
Some people are in sore need of surgery; they need about
half of their ego removed.
The emptiest man in all the world is the man who is full
of himself.
A stiff neck usually supports an empty head.
Egotism is obesity of the head.
One of the hardest secrets for a man to keep is his
opinion of himself.
The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his
shoes.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to
comprehend his cleverness and just stupid enough to admire it.
The more praise a man is willing to take, the less he
deserves it.
He who toots his own horn has everybody dodging him.
The strange thing is that man is satisfied with so little
in himself but demands so much in others.
The cemeteries are full of people who thought the world couldn't
get along without them.
You're never going to get anywhere if you think you're
already there.
The only thing that can keep on growing without
nourishment is an ego.
Some of us veer to the left and some of us swing to the
right, but most of us are self‑centered.
Egotism is an internally‑generated anesthetic which
enables a conceited person to live painlessly with himself.
Any smart woman Will tell you that the best way to a man's
heart is through his ego.
The kind of success that turns a man's head always leaves
him facing the wrong direction.
Staring up to admire your halo usually creates a pain in
the neck.
The minute a man begins to feel his importance, his
friends begin to doubt it.
It's so sad that our ancestors did not live long enough to
realize how smart we are.
Egotism is the world's most poorly‑kept secret.
There never was a person with an inflated ego who wasn't
full of hot air.
The bigger the head, the smaller the heart.
A man who is self‑centered is off‑centered.
We have observed that many self‑made men made their
heads oversize.
When a man gets too big for his "britches," his
hat doesn't fit either.
Don't brag and blow; it isn't the whistle that pulls the
train.
When a man tries himself, the verdict is usually in his
favor.
Some proud folks are always letting off esteem.
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to
lie.
Egotism is the ability to see those things in yourself
that others cannot see.
Those who are sold on themselves still have to find a
buyer's market.
The man who thinks he has no faults has at least one.
Some folks get carried away by the sound of their own
voices ‑ but not far enough.
Egotism is a disease that often kills men before they know
they have it.
As the chest swells, the brain and the heart shrink.
Egotism is partly enthusiasm ‑ but mostly ignorance.
The bouquet you hand yourself usually looks like weeds to
the other fellow.
Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck on yourself.
Many a little squirt thinks he's a fountain of wisdom.
Some folks are like the rooster who thought the sun rose
every morning just to hear him crow.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of
stupidity.
It doesn't pay to get "stuck up." The peacock of
today is the feather duster of tomorrow.
Neither an egg nor an ego is any good until you break it.
There are only two kinds of egotists ‑ those
who admit it and the rest of us. ‑
An egotist is a man who talks so much about himself that
he gives us no time to talk about ourselves.
Some folks are so proud of themselves they can strut
sitting down.
An egotist is like a ship in a fog ‑ always blowing
his horn.
To hear some snobs talk, you'd think they begat their own
ancestors.
An egotistical person persists in telling you things about
himself that you had planned on telling him about yourself.
Some people are so egotistical that every time they look
in the mirror they take a bow.
An egotist is a person who thinks as much of himself as
you think of yourself.
Any egotist will tell you there is no satisfactory
substitute for himself.
There's something to be said for the egotist, and he's
usually saying it.
No matter what effect the egotist has on others, he always
fascinates himself.
The biggest egotist of all is the one who thinks that if
he hadn't been born people would wonder why.
An egotist is a guy who keeps holding himself over by
popular demand
An egotist is a person who is his own best friend.
When two egotists meet it's a case of an "I" for
an "L"
When an egotist doesn't understand something in a book, he
decides it must be a misprint.
Pride hides a man's faults to himself and magnifies them
to everyone else.
It seems that when a fellow claims to know all the answers
some fool comes along and asks the wrong questions.
An egotist is a person who plays too big a part in his own
life.
The eyes of an egotist look in instead of out.
An egotist is not necessarily a man who thinks too much of
himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.
Not even an egotist is all bad. At least he doesn't go
around talking about other folks.
An egotist is a man who thinks he's smarter than you are ‑
though you know very well he isn't.
You can always spot an egotist, but seldom soon enough.
An egotist is an inferior person with a superiority
complex.
A prominent gentleman in
The man doesn't live who has not, at some time, thought he
had the elements of greatness in him.
Some men achieve greatness, others are born great, and a
few have greatness thrust upon them. The rest of use just think we're great.
Mental cases hardest to cure are those who are crazy about
themselves.
Too many people are humble ‑ and know it.
No big ideas ever came from swelled heads.
The fellow who thinks he is full of knowledge is
especially annoying to those of us who are.
The more you talk about yourself, the more apt you are to
lie.
If your life is an open book, don't bore your friends by
reading out of it.
The fellow who is too deeply in love with himself ought to
get a divorce.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
You can usually recognize a self‑made man. He has
arms long enough to pat himself on the back.
A self‑made man is usually a horrible example of
unskilled labor.
You don't have to be much of a musician to toot your own
horn.
We are sorely in need of a special encyclopedia with blank
pages for the fellow who knows everything.
The only time some people don't interrupt is when you're
praising them.
It's not difficult to pick out the best people. They'll
help you do it.
People who are carried away by their own importance seldom
have far to walk back.
If biologists are right in their assertion that there is
not a perfect man on earth today, a lot of personal opinions will have to be
altered.
Remember, whenever you're praised to the sky, it's best to
keep your feet on the ground.
A song that never gets an encore is when you sing your own
praises.
Reputation is a large bubble which bursts when you try to
blow it up yourself.
When selling yourself don't misrepresent the goods.
The biggest obstacle many of us stumble over are our own
faults.
The trouble with most people is that every time they
think, they think only of themselves.
It isn't a woman's will that makes her diet it's her ego.
"I have chosen you." Keep that note of greatness
in your creed. It is
not that you have got God, but that he has got you. Why is
God at work
in me, bending, breaking, moulding, doing just as he
chooses? For one
purpose only-that he may be able to say , "This is my
man, my woman."
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Election is ascribed to God the Father, sanctification to
the Spirit,
and reconciliation to Jesus Christ .... The Son cannot die
for them
whom the Father never elected, and the Spirit will never
sanctify them
whom the Father hath not elected nor the Son redeemed.
Thomas Manton (1620-1677)
God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by
choosing us he
makes us worthy.
Thomas Watson (C. 1557-1592)
Many are called but most are frozen in corporate or
collective cold,
these are the stalled who choose not to be chosen except
to be bought
and sold.
Lee Carroll Pieper
The elect are whosoever will; the non-elect are whosoever
won't.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
This doctrine affords comfort: thy unworthiness may dismay
thee, but
remember that thy election depends not upon thy worthiness
but upon
the will of God.
Elnathan Parr
When God elects us, it is not because we are handsome.
John Calvin (1509-1564)
A democracy is a system where a fellow who didn't vote can
spend the rest of the year kicking about the candidate the other fellows
elected.
The cheapest way to have your family tree traced is to run
for public office.
People are not against political jokes ‑ they just
wonder how they get elected.
Everybody makes mistakes. That's why we keep having
political elections.
If we could use the money political candidates spend on
their campaigns, we could cure a lot of the ills they complain about.
We are sorely in need of a voting machine with a space for
"Remarks."
It's useless to try to hold some people to anything they
say while they're madly in love, drunk, or running for office.
You can't fool all the people all the time, but
politicians figure that once every four years is good enough.
Every time a politician expresses a growing concern for
something the price goes up.
The election isn't very far away when a candidate can
recognize you across the street.
Wasn't it too bad about the politician in
An election year is when a lot of politicians get free
speech mixed up with cheap talk.
We are all ready to vote a straight ticket next election ‑
as soon as we can find out which party is straight.
It's about time that voters start electing candidates for
what they won't stand for.
Don't vote a straight ticket unless it's filled with
straight men.
We should hold elections every year because there never
seem to be tax increases in an election year.
An election year is a period when all the Democrats and
all the Republicans devote their time saving the country from each other.
During an election year the political races get rough, and
many candidates develop straddle sores.
The guy who never votes is the first to tell you what's
wrong with the government.
The whole purpose of any political campaign is to stay
calm, cool, and elected.
In this country only half of the voters vote and generally
it's the wrong half.
An election is a system which allows us to decide which
politicians we prefer to mess things up for us.
The most dangerous vote in
Ballot boxes in
Be thankful American elections are by ballots ‑ not
bullets. We count the returns ‑not the remains.
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes
people that long to regain their faith.
During political elections all political parties campaign
for better education. When we take a close look at some of the men elected, we
have to admit it's needed.
It is reported that someone recently broke into the
Kremlin and stole next year's election.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the
worst is
that which delays them.
To say that he was not at a loss for a word is one of the
great
understatements of all time. He was not at a loss for
500,000 words
and we heard 'em, every one.
William Connor
We never forgive those who make us blush.
A stitch in time saves embarrassing exposure.
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching your boss do
something you
told him couldn't be done.
An embarrassing moment is spitting out of a car window
when it's
not open.
The most embarrassing moment in your life was probably
when you spit out of a car window when it wasn't open.
It's always embarrassing for a man to run unexpectedly
into a girl he was once engaged to.
The height of embarrassment is when two eyes meet at the same
keyhole.
Real embarrassment is when you tell a girl her stockings
are wrinkled when she's not wearing any.
Nothing is quite as embarrassing as watching your boss do
something you assured him couldn't be done.
It is extremely embarrassing to come to your senses and
find out you haven't any.
Parents are always embarrassed when their children tell
lies, but sometimes it's even worse when they tell the truth.
Poise is often being too stupid to know you should be
embarrassed.
If thoughts could be read, faces might be redder.
The most embarrassing moment in your life was probably
when you spit out of a car window when it wasn't open.
It's always embarrassing for a man to run unexpectedly
into a girl he was once engaged to.
The height of embarrassment is when two eyes meet at the
same keyhole.
Real embarrassment is when you tell a girl her stockings
are wrinkled when she's not wearing any.
Nothing is quite as embarrassing as watching your boss do
something you assured him couldn't be done.
It is extremely embarrassing to come to your senses and
find out you haven't any.
Parents are always embarrassed when their children tell
lies, but sometimes it's even worse when they tell the truth.
Poise is often being too stupid to know you should be embarrassed.
If thoughts could be read, faces might be redder.
When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with
creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion,
creatures bristling
with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
Dale Carnegie
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and
stereotyped; by
repressing them we become literal, reformatory and
holier-than-thou;
encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison
it.
Joseph Collins
It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth
than one emotion.
Mark Twain
Much outcry, little outcome.
Aesop
Few men ever drop dead from overwork, but many quietly
curl up and
die because of undersatisfaction.
Sydney Harris
Respect a man, he will do the more.
James Howell
Don't mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone
else. Judge
everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no
matter
how slow.
Plato
A smile in giving honest criticism can make the difference
between
resentment and reform.
Philip Steinmetz
A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Millions of Americans aren't working, but thank heaven
they've got jobs.
A certain boss when asked how many people work for him
replied, "About half of them."
It isn't the number of people employed in a business that
makes it successful. It's the number working.
If coffee breaks get much longer, employees will be late
for quitting time.
Colleges try to find out what their graduates do after
graduation. Employers are trying too.
White House employees are no longer permitted to use the
polite expression "Pardon me."
The best employees work for their employers as though they
were self‑employed.
When a distillery employee works overtime, does he get
time and a Fifth?
If things don't change for the better, the day is not far
off when employees will demand the deductions instead of the pay.
An employee in
There is something all employees should know. There is a
big difference between finishing a job and wrecking it.
Most employees would get more work done if they didn't
have to spend so much time filling out work schedules.
The executive most hated by those around him is the one
who is always annoying office workers by asking them to do something.
Nothing improves a joke more than telling it to your
employees.
You may know more than your employer, but his knowledge
pays off.
Executives of large industrial firms are looking for men
between twenty‑five and thirty with forty years of experience.
Some workers are trying to make both weekends meet.
It's predicted that in twenty years people will work two
days a week and relax five. Some employers think that's happening now.
A few years ago to work ten hours a day was called
economic slavery.
Today it is called moonlighting.
A servant that is diligent, honest, and good,
Must sing at his work like a bird in the wood.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
An astronaut is the only man who runs around in
circles-and gets
somewhere.
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful
and fill it with life.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Each individual has his own kind of living assigned to him
by the Lord
as a sort of sentry post.
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Few men ever drop dead from overwork, but many quietly
curl up and die
because of undersatisfaction.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
Give us, oh, give us, the man who sings at his work! He
will do more
in the same time, he will do it better, he will persevere
longer. One
is scarcely sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it
into the nest.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
God gives no linen, but flax to spin.
German Proverb
God gives the birds their food, but they must fly for it.
Dutch Proverb
God says, "Rise up and I shall rise with you."
He does not say, "Sleep
and I shall feed you."
Arabian Proverb
Heaven is the Christian's vocation and therefore he counts
all earthly
employments as avocations.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave.
If a man
does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Chinese Proverb
If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do
all the
eating and none of the work, he would have made them with
mouths only
and no hands; and if he had ever made another class that
he intended
should do all the work and no eating, he would have made
them with
hands only and no mouths.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough
money so
that you won't have to work.
If you would have good servants, see that you be a good
master.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, it is our
duty.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these
three things
are needed: they must be fit for it, they must not do too
much of it,
and they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Labor is but refreshment from repose.
Labor: a powerful medicine.
Saint John Chrysostom (C. 347-407)
Monday-through-Friday employment is pure, it's sacred-just
as sacred
as your Sunday activities.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
Never fall out with your bread and butter.
English Proverb
No life can be dreary when work is delight.
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879)
No one can make a real masterpiece of life until he sees
something
infinitely greater in his vocation than bread and butter
and shelter.
Orison Swett Marden
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to
fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is
habit lost. A
habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small
jobs.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Nothing is work unless you would rather be doing something
else.
Sir James M. Barrie (1860-1937)
Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Our forefathers succeeded because their goal was not
material wealth
alone but glory to God. Their mundane work was as sacred
as the
frontier parson's. They believed whatever they did was God
ordained.
Tom Haggai
People used to need rest after work; today they need
exercise.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn
to sell and
keep.
Quality workmanship is not expensive; it's priceless!
Spin carefully-spin prayerfully, but leave the thread to
God.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes
before work.
The highest reward of a man's labor is not what he gets
for it, but
what it does for him.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
The outstanding mistake of the employer is his failure to
realize that
he is dealing with human material.
Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967)
The perfect job: the responsibility of an office boy, the
hours of an
absentee, and the income of an executive.
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man
who holds
the job.
George Crane
There is no work better than another to please God; to
pour water, to
wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all is one;
to wash
dishes and to preach is all one, as touching as the deed,
to please God.
William Tyndale (C. 1494-1536)
We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
When you are working for others, let it be with the same
zeal as if it
were for yourself.
Confucius (C. 551-479 B.C.)
Work is easy-for those who like to work.
Jewish Proverb
Work should be looked upon, not as a necessary drudgery to
be
undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of
life in
which the nature of man should find its proper exercise
and delight
and so fulfill itself to the glory of God.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
Boredom has made more gamblers than greed, more drunkards
than thirst,
and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Boredom: the consciousness of a barren, meaningless existence.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Boredom: what happens when we lose contact with the
universe.
John Ciardi (1916-1986)
Somehow or other, and with the best intentions, we have
shown the
world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and
rather
ill-natured bore-and this in the name of one who assuredly
never bored
a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed
through the
world like a flame.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
There are no uninteresting things; there are only uninterested
people.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember
that there
is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
John Alfred Spender (1862-1942)
What a bore it is, waking up in the morning always the
same person. I
wish I were unflinching and emphatic and had big, bushy
eyebrows and a
message for the age. I wish I were a deep thinker or a
great
ventriloquist.
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own
selves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
A good word costs no more than a bad one.
English Proverb
Apt words have power to assuage
The tumors of a troubled mind
And are as balm to fester'd wounds.
John Milton (1608-1674)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Encouragement after
censure is as the sun after a shower.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Don't point a finger-hold out a helping hand.
Don't rely on the broken reed of human support.
Asher Ben Jehiel (1250-1327)
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
George M. Adams (1878-1962)
He climbs highest who helps another up.
Zig Ziglar
How many people stop because so few say, "Go!"
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
Is anyone happier because you passed his way? Does anyone
remember
that you spoke to him today?
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the
fragrance.
More people fail for lack of encouragement than for any
other reason.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my
weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be
appreciated.
William James (1842-1910)
The men who are lifting the world upward and onward are
those who
encourage more than criticize.
Elisabeth Harrison
The small change of human happiness lies in the unexpected
friendly
word.
We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we
open, we reach, we grow.
Gerhard E. Frost
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without
brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is
better than a
pound of preaching.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
A slap on the back often pushes out the chest.
A slap on the back doesn't always mean encouragement ‑
mosquitoes get it too!
Encouragement is like premium gasoline. It helps to take
the knock out of living.
Pat others on the back, not yourself.
The best thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.
A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed
from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
Don't forget that a pat on the back can cause a chin to go
up and shoulders to go back.
Patting a fellow on the back is the best way to get a chip
off his shoulder.
A friend will strengthen you with his prayers, bless you
with his love, and encourage you with his hope.
Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you, and low
enough to encourage you.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from
his friends.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658)
Better is the enemy of good.
Italian Proverb
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst
enemies
within us.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Do not fear when your enemies criticize you. Beware when
they applaud.
Vo Dong Giang
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from
his
friends.
Baltasar Gracian
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and
sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is
calm.
Malayan proverb
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing
the means
he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends,
but the
whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his
luck.
Euripides
Love your enemies.
Matthew 5:44
The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the
attention
of the people against a single adversary and taking care
that nothing
will split up that attention.
Adolf Hitler
Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn
To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to
strike.
Diane de Poitiers
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances
for
their good characters, and my enemies for their
intellects. A man
cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously
tactically.
Mao Tse-tung
Speak well of your enemies, sir, you made them.
Oren Arnold
You have many enemies that know not why they are so, but,
like to
village-curs, bark when their fellows do.
William Shakespeare
Man is his own worst enemy.
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat.
Proverbs 25:21
A man's greatness can be measured by his enemy.
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Benjamin Franklin
Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.
Greek proverb
His must be a very wretched fortune who has no enemy.
Latin proverb
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him
free from
rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to
have
always an enemy in his view.
Lord Halifax
Even the mean man has his value. You can learn from him
how not to live.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and
sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we
should find in
each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.
Henry
It is my rule, from experience, to remember my friend may
become my
enemy, and my enemy my friend.
Sophocles (C. 496-406 B.C.)
It is never wise to underestimate an enemy. We look upon
the enemy of
our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God ,
not to us.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark
forces pent up
within him.
Ernest Jones (1879-1958)
Men who walk in the ways of God would not grieve the
hearts even of
their enemies.
Sa'di (Thirteenth Century)
Never cease loving a person and never give up hope for him,
for even
the Prodigal Son who had fallen most low could still be
saved. The
bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could
again be your
friend; love that has grown cold can kindle again.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good
that we are
slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of
smugness and
self-satisfaction.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to
discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes (C. 445-C. 365
B.C.)
The safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him
your friend.
Two enemies are two potential friends who don't know each
other.
We should conduct ourselves toward our enemy as if he were
one day to
be our friend.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and ... his own
executioner.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor-
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done;
You've hit no traitor on the hip;
You've dashed no cup from perjured lip;
You've never turned the wrong to right-
You've been a coward in the fight!
Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your
enemy can.
Hannah Hurnard (1905-1990)
Anyone who's written an autobiography learns you can make
two kinds of enemies with such a book ‑ the people you mention and those
you don't.
It sometimes looks foolish for folks to be spending so
much time loving their enemies when they should be treating their friends a
little better.
People make enemies by complaining too much to their
friends.
As long as your conscience is your friend, never mind
about your enemies.
Discretion is the art of forgiving your enemies ‑
especially those you can't whip.
It's easier to love your enemies if you remember that they
never try to borrow from you.
Love your enemies ‑ it will drive them nuts!
If you simply must make enemies, pick lazy ones.
Blessed are our enemies, for they tell us the truth when
our friends flatter us.
Always speak well of your enemies; remember you made
them.
No enemy is more dangerous than a friend who isn't quite
sure whether he's for you or against you.
Love your enemies, but if you really want to make them
mad, ignore them completely.
When you bury the hatchet, don't bury it in your enemy's
back.
It is possible to learn from an enemy things we can't learn
from a friend.
Some people make enemies instead of friends because it's
less trouble.
The enemy you make today may be the only one who can help
you twenty‑five years from now.
Nobody can have too many friends, but one enemy may
constitute a surplus.
If you want an enemy, just try to convince a fool he's
wrong.
There is only one reason why your enemy can't become your
friend ‑ YOU!
We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what
we do.
You can meet friends everywhere, but you can't meet
enemies anywhere ‑ you have to make them.
Love your enemies and they will wonder what kind of a deal
you are trying to pull.
It's a lot easier for a fellow to love his enemies than to
make them love him.
Mankind's worst enemy is fear ‑ of work!
Forgive your enemies ‑ if you can't get back at them
any other way!
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them quite so
much.
Folks who are friends usually have the same virtues, the
same enemies, or the same faults.
The difference between our friends and our enemies is
this: Our friends love us in spite of our faults, and our enemies hate us in
spite of our virtues.
No one should judge another person by what that person's
enemies say about him.
You can judge a man by his enemies as well as by his
friends.
Kindness is the ability to treat your enemy decently.
Always speak kindly to your enemy and maybe he'll come
close enough for you to box his ears!
The Bible admonishes us to love our neighbors, and also
to love our enemies ‑ probably because they are generally the same
people.
Love your enemies. It'll sure make them feel foolish.
Beware of the man who continues to tell you he's on your
side. So is appendicitis.
Man is that foolish creature who tries to get even with
his enemies and ahead of his friends.
The best medicine in the world is to love your work and
your enemies.
A man's reputation is a blend of what his friends,
enemies, and acquaintances say behind his back.
A still tongue makes no enemies.
Many Americans are trying to conserve energy as never
before ‑ they're now burning their morning toast only on one side.
Engineers are trying to build a car that will stop
smoking. We would all like to own a car that would stop drinking.
One sensible reason for abolishing the electric chair is
the energy it would save.
One thing most children save for a rainy day is lots of
energy.
Many people complain about the fuel mileage they get on
their riding lawn mower ‑ only a yard to the gallon.
It's a confused world. We're running out of electricity ‑
and nobody even knows what it is.
Your conscience doesn't really keep you from doing
anything; it merely keeps you from enjoying it.
Enjoy today and don't waste it grieving over a bad
yesterday ‑ tomorrow may be even worse.
Why not learn to enjoy the little things ‑there are
so many of them?
Don't expect to enjoy life if you keep your milk of human
kindness all bottled up.
If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier
with more?
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our
abundance.
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days"
you're going to miss in the years ahead.
The good things of life were made to enjoy. Enjoying a
thing means sharing it with others.
There are a lot of folks in the world who spend so much time
watching their health that they haven't time to enjoy it.
It's a grand person indeed who can laugh at himself with
others and enjoy it as much as they do.
About the only gas rationing most of us would favor concerns
useless conversations.
Those who are most successful in making excuses have no
energy left for anything else.
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the high cost of
hatred, and the waste of energy.
Sign on a
The only way you can get the same gas mileage in your car
as your friends say they get in theirs is to lie about it.
A concert pianist in
One solution to the energy problem is to bale up all the
government red tape and use it for fuel.
Some restaurants are now saving energy ‑drink two or
three of their cocktails and the lights go out.
Windmills in
The cross is easier to the Christian who takes it up than
to the one who drags it along.
A cold church is like cold butter ‑ never spreads
very well.
Enthusiasm is contagious ‑ and so is the lack of it.
We have never learned to support the things we support
with the enthusiasm with which we
oppose the things we oppose.
A wise man once said that enthusiasm is nothing but faith
with a tin can tied to its tail.
Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for
a driver.
There's always a good crop of food for thought. What we
need is enough enthusiasm to harvest it.
He who has no fire in himself cannot warm others.
If it were as easy to arouse enthusiasm as it is
suspicion, just think what could be accomplished!
We won't go far without enthusiasm, but neither will we
go far if that's all we have.
Enthusiasm is apt to breed more action than accuracy.
The fellow who is fired with enthusiasm for his work is
seldom fired by his boss.
Enthusiasm is the propelling force necessary for climbing
the ladder of success.
An enthusiast is a fellow who feels perfectly sure of the
things he is mistaken about.
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled
with failures.
A wave of enthusiasm is seldom a permanent wave.
Years wrinkle the skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles
the soul.
An enthusiast is one who believes about four times as much
as he can prove, and can prove
about eight times as much as anyone will ever believe.
Enthusiasm for hard work is most sincerely expressed by
the person who is paying for it.
The road to failure is greased with the slime of
indifference.
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
Some folks get into the sea of matrimony on a wave of
enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the highest paid quality on earth.
Frank Bettger
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats
money and
power and influence.
Henry Chester
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic. Inner
enthusiasm follows.
William Ellis
The simplest man, fired with enthusiasm, is more
persuasive than
the most eloquent man without it.
Franklin Field
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who
does not
know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost
his enthusiasm.
H. W. Arnold
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything
to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn
Americans sink millions of dollars in unsound financial
schemes, one of which is trying to keep
up with the neighbors.
Nothing depreciates a car faster than having a neighbor
buy a new one.
Some of the older generation's criticism of the younger
generation is heavily tinged with envy.
A person usually criticizes the individual whom he
secretly envies.
Sometimes criticism is nothing but a mild form of envy.
The only person worth envying is the person who doesn't
envy.
When you feel yourself turning green with envy, you're
ripe for trouble.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a
microscope.
Don't mind the fellow who belittles you; he's only trying
to cut you down to his size.
Envy is blind and knows nothing except to depreciate the
excellence of others.
We underrate that which we do not possess.
Envy provides the mud that failure throws at success.
Don't envy anybody. Every person has something no other
per son has. Develop that one thing
and make it outstanding.
The only person worth envying is the one who has found a
cause bigger than himself.
After a man makes his mark in the world, a lot of people
will come around with an eraser.
Instead of letting their light shine, some people spend
their time trying to put out the lights of others.
Being overcome with envy is like running into the ocean;
the deeper you go in, the harder it is to get out.
Envy is usually the mother of gossip.
Most of us would be better off financially if it weren't
for the extravagance of our neighbors.
There are many roads to hate, but envy is one of the
shortest of them all.
A good idea is one that hits the other fellow with a bolt
of envy.
Jealousy is to the soul what sickness is to the body.
Love is the glue that cements friendship; jealousy keeps
it from sticking.
The sunlight of love will kill all the germs of jealousy
and hate.
The thing that keeps some men broke is not the wolf at the
door but the silver fox in the window.
The smart politician keeps envy out of his voice when he
accuses his opponents of fooling the public.
Most of us aren't prepared to accept success ‑
especially somebody else's.
Did you ever feel yourself turning green with envy? If so,
you were ripe for trouble.
Some ulcers are caused by inflammation of the wishbone.
People who talk about things they can't afford sometimes
forget that the list should include
pride, envy, and malice.
A
One blessing in being poor, honest, and hardworking is
that nobody envies you.
Envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
Greek proverb
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
A person is truly great when he is not envious of his
rival's success.
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
Antisthenes (C. 445-C. 365
B.C.)
Don't envy the man who has everything: he probably has an
ulcer too.
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
German Proverb
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay (1685-1732)
Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its
appetite, and
it knows no gratification but endless self torment. It has
the
ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an
effort to escape.
Angus Wilson (1913- )
Envy is like a disease-it consumes the soul.
Jewish Proverb
Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts
and dwells
upon the sores.
George Chapman (C. 1559-1634)
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Envy slays itself by its own arrows.
Greek Proverb
Envy's a coal come hissing hot from hell.
Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
Envy: the green sickness.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Happiness vanishes when envy appears.
Jewish Proverb
He who envies another admits his own inferiority.
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through
another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great
things that they
possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Edward Young (1683-1765)
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those
we envy.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
The only thing more disturbing than a friend with a noisy
old car is a
friend with a quiet new one.
Too many Christians envy the sinners their pleasure and
the saints
their joy because they don't have either one.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I
lost.
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in
resurrecting the
dead and burying the living.
Paul Eldridge
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created
equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with
inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
A good American looks up to nobody, looks down on nobody,
but looks straight into the eyes of everybody.
A sure cure for conceit is a visit to the cemetery, where
eggheads and boneheads get equal
billing.
A democracy is a country in which everybody has an equal
right to feel superior to the other
fellow.
Ours is a democracy where the rich and the poor are alike ‑
both complain about taxes.
Creating all men free and equal isn't enough. Some means
must be devised to keep them free
and equal.
Freedom is indivisible. It is for all or none.
Future generations will be born free, equal, and in debt.
The reason they say the income tax is the fairest tax of
all is that it gives every individual an even chance at poverty.
There's justice for all, but it doesn't seem to be equally
distributed.
All men are born equal. The tough job is to outgrow it.
In an atomic war all men will be cremated equal.
The only real equality is in the cemetery.
German proverb
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to
explain why
you did it wrong.
Henry W. Longfellow
All childish errors are not made by children.
To err is human; to blame it on others is even more human.
Sign on a company bulletin board in
Sometimes we learn more from a man's errors than from his
virtues.
To err is understandable; to admit it is unlikely.
It is one thing to show a man he is in error, and quite
another thing to put him in possession of the truth.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to
correct it.
To err is human; to forget, routine.
It's true that to err is human ‑ but it can be
overdone.
The longer a man is in error, the surer he is he's right.
To err is human; to cover it up is even more human.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted
and published every day like those of
a baseball player!
To err is human. But to really louse it up, it takes a
computer.
It may be true that to err is human, but to remain in error
is stupid.
Defending your faults and errors only proves that you have
no intention of quitting them.
Stupid mistakes are made by others ‑ we only make
"unavoidable errors."
The man who never makes an error never plays ball.
Few people seek to discover truth; most of us seek to
confirm our errors and perpetuate our
prejudices.
Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly
away, and be at rest.
Psalms 55:6
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will
establish a
reputation as an expert.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart
withers, man
grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre
of ages, but
time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)
Eternity is the ocean; time is the wave.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grows meaner and
more hostile.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Eternity stands always fronting God; a stern colossal
image, with
blind eyes, and grand dim lips that murmur evermore,
"God-God-God!"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to
praise him
for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we
shall be
always with him, and we desire nothing more.
Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
He who has no vision of eternity will never get a true
hold of time.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
High up in the north in the land called Svithjod, there
stands a rock.
It is one hundred miles high and one hundred miles wide.
Once every
thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen
its beak.
When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day
of eternity
will have gone by.
Hendrick Willem Van Loon (1882-1944)
How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to
a God who
has none. Eternal years lie in his heart. For him time
does not pass,
it remains; and those who are in Christ share with him all
the riches
of limitless time and endless years.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
I saw eternity the other night
Like a great ring of pure and endless light.
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
I thank thee, O Lord, that thou hast so set eternity within
my heart
that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.
John Baillie (1741-1806)
In eternity everything is just beginning.
Elias Canetti (1905- )
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as
transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.
Agnes Maude Royden (1876-1956)
Live near to God, and all things will appear little to you
in
comparison with eternal realities.
Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843)
Man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants
another one
which will last forever.
Anatole
None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity
is an
ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep,
where we
can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot
extricate
ourselves and where we shall ever lose the door.
Thomas Boston (1676-1732)
The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The only alternative to eternal life is eternal
punishment.
Harry W. Post (1909- )
The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of
life.
Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721-1794)
The time will come when every change shall cease,
The quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, nor winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last.
Petrarch (1304-1374)
The tissue of the Life to be
We weave with colors all our own,
And in the field of Destiny
We reap as we have sown.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
There is a hint of the everlasting in the vastness of the
sea.
J. B. Phillips (1906-1982)
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death
cannot kill what never dies, nor can spirits ever be
divided that love
and live in the same divine principle.
William Penn (1644-1718)
This was the strength of the first Christians, that they
lived not in
one world only, but in two, and found in consequence not
tension
alone, but power, the vision of a world unshaken and
unshakable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only
one short
hour before sunset in which to win them.
Robert Moffat (1795-1883)
When ten thousand times ten thousand times ten thousand
years have
passed, eternity will have just begun.
Billy Sunday (1862-1935)
When you look at a mountain, imagine in your hearts how
long would it
be before that mountain should be removed by a little bird
coming but
once every thousand years, and carrying away but one grain
of the dust
of it at once: the mountain would at length be removed
that way, and
brought to an end; but eternity will never end. Suppose
with respect
to all the mountains of the earth, no, with respect to the
whole globe
itself: the grains of dust of which the whole of it is
made up are not
infinite; and therefore the last grain would, at length,
come to be
carried away, as above: yet eternity would be, in effect,
but beginning.
Thomas Boston (1676-1732)
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up
to them.
Alfred Adler
Etiquette is the art of knowing the right way to do a
wrong thing.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 7:20
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions
but by his inaction.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Alas, then the sun goes in again, and we are back in the
kingdom of
fantasy, where it is goodness that is flat and boring, and
evil that
is varied and attractive, profound, intriguing and full of
charm.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Because the designs of God's providence are deeply hidden
and his
judgment has great deeps, it happens that some, seeing
that all the
evils which men do go unpunished, rashly conclude that
human affairs
are not governed by God's providence or even that all
crimes are
committed because God so wills. "Both errors are
impious," says St.
Augustine, "especially the latter."
Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)
Evil can never be disguised.
A necessary evil is one we like so well we do not care
about abolishing it.
The man who cannot be angry at evil usually lacks
enthusiasm for good.
Evil flourishes in the world because the good people allow
their differences to divide them
instead of allowing the things on which they agree to
unite them.
The evils of men are divided into two classes: openly bad
and secretly bad.
It seems that the roots of all evil are planted very
deeply.
The best way to escape evil is to pursue good.
Shakespeare said that the evil men do lives after them. On
TV this is called.a rerun.
Facts are troublesome things to the evildoer.
A man who is unable to choose between two evils often
hunts up a third.
The love of money, and the lack of it, is the root of all
kinds of evil.
The saxophone was invented a century ago, thus proving
that "the evil which men do lives after
them."
Even in evil, that dark cloud that hangs over creation, we
discern
rays of light and hope and gradually come to see, in
suffering and
temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest
purposes of wisdom
and love.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
Everything evil is revenge.
Otto Weininger (1880-1903)
Everything is filthy to him who has filthy hands.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of
knowledge.
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
Evil can never be undone, but only purged and redeemed.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Ethiopian Proverb
Evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
Hesiod (Eighth Century B.C.)
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect,
excess,
perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Evil is here? That's work for us to do.
Evil is ready for anything.
French Proverb
Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
Talmud
Evil is that which God does not will.
Emil Brunner (1889-1966)
Evil is the real problem in the hearts and minds of men.
It is not a
problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium
than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of
heart.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Evil means subtraction, deprivation, failure.
Martin C. D'arcy (1888-1976)
Evil must go somewhere.... The exorcism of evil is forever
an
uncertain affair.
Paul Tournier (1898-1986)
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
Joseph Roux (1834-1886)
Evil people have a kind of enamorment with their own will.
When there
is a conflict between their conscience and their will, it
is the
conscience which has to go. They are extraordinarily
willful people
and extraordinarily controlling people.
M. Scott Peck (1936- )
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole
system.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
Father of Light! how blind is he
Who sprinkles the altar he rears to thee
With the blood and tears of humanity!
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
God created free beings, beings endowed with the terrible
power of
retreating from reality into nothingness if they so willed
-for, once
again, evil is privation, nonbeing, emptiness-and Satan is
simply the
first of those beings to choose this path.
Gerald Vann (1906-1963)
God is so powerful that he can direct any evil to a good
end.
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
God would never permit evil if he could not bring good out
of evil.
Thomas Watson (C. 1557-1592)
He who digs a pit for his brother to fall into shall fall
into it himself.
Arabian Proverb
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as
he who
helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without
protesting against
it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
How exhausting it is to be evil!
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
I do not fear the explosive power of the atom bomb. What I
fear is the
explosive power of evil in the human heart.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If evil did not make its dwelling in man, it would be much
more evil
than it is. Evil cannot be an evil as it wills to be
because it is
tied to man. Because it is in man, a watch is kept on
evil. In man,
the image of God, evil is constricted; it is there under
custody as in
a prison. The destructive power of evil would be unlimited
if it were
on earth alone, unsheltered by God's image. The earth is
saved from
destruction because, in God's image, a watch is kept upon
evil.
Max Picard (1888-1965)
If evil is not something directly willed by God and not
something
wholly outside of his control, but something in his good
world which
he has temporarily permitted to exist while he calls for
volunteers to
oppose and correct it, then the task of overcoming evil is
never a
hopeless one.
Walter Marshall Horton (1895-1966)
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself;
it is more
universal, more contagious, more dangerous.
Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972)
It is bad to lean against a falling wall.
Danish Proverb
It is far easier to meet an evil in the open and defeat it
in fair
combat in people's minds, than to drive it underground and
have no
hold on it or proper approach to it. Evil flourishes far
more in the
shadows than in the light of day.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
It is important that human beings should not overlook the
danger of
the evil lurking within them. It is unfortunately only too
real, which
is why psychology must insist on the reality of evil and
must reject
any definition that regards it as insignificant or
actually nonexistent.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I
am content to
observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to
escape from it,
and with this I begin and end.
John Newton (1725-1807)
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man
have come
through people feeling quite certain about something
which, in fact,
was false.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)
No evil which is done to us can harm us ultimately, for it
will be
compensated for by God himself.
Hannah Hurnard (1905-1990)
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes
it for
happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
No matter how many people steal, stealing remains wrong.
No matter how
many people are corrupt, corruption remains wrong. No matter
how many
people betray public trust, that action remains wrong. The
fact that
any misdeed becomes popular does not make it permissible.
The problem
of evil is not solved by multiplication.
Sidney Greenberg
Nonresistance to evil which takes the form of paying no
attention to
it is a way of promoting it.
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Of evil grain, no good seed can come.
English Proverb
Of two evils, choose neither.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Of two evils, pass up the first, and turn down the other.
One no averts seventy evils.
Indian Proverb
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
German Proverb
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Our greatest pretences are built up, not to hide the evil and
the ugly
in us, but our emptiness.
People do not need Satan to recruit them to evil. They are
quite
capable of recruiting themselves.
M. Scott Peck (1936- )
The evil for which we punish others is of the same
substance as the
evil in our own thinking and feeling.
David Abrahamsen
The existence of evil here below, far from disproving the
reality of
God, is the very thing that reveals him in his truth.
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
The existence of evil is not so much an obstacle to faith
in God as a
proof of God's existence, a challenge to turn toward that
in which
love triumphs over hatred, union over division, and
eternal life over death.
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948)
The fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight
of cosmic
proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has
already
started. The forces of evil have begun their decisive
offensive. You
can feel their pressure, yet your screens and publications
are full of
prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy
about?
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
The greater the evil, the greater the opportunity to
fashion out of it
everlasting good.
Hannah Hurnard (1905-1990)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The soul itself its awful witness is. Say not in evil
doing, "No one sees."
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to
one who is
striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
There is a devil-a spirit of evil in us tugging at us to
make us
animals rather than angels.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
There is nothing evil in matter itself. Evil lies in the
spirit. Evils
of the heart, of the mind, of the soul, of the spirit-
these have to
do with man's sin, and the only reason the human body does
evil is
because the human spirit uses it to do evil.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Thinking evil is the same as doing it.
Greek Proverb
To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
We are likely to believe the worst about another because
the capacity
for evil is so pronounced in ourselves.
Louis Nizer (1902- )
We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.
Joseph François Eduard Desmahis (1722-1761)
We have to carry on the struggle against the evil that is
in mankind,
not by judging others, but by judging ourselves. Struggle
with oneself
and veracity toward oneself are the means by which we
influence others.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
We must never feel that God will, through some
breathtaking miracle or
a wave of the hand, cast evil out of the world. As long as
we believe
this, we will pray unanswerable prayers and ask God to do
things that
he will never do. The belief that God will do everything
for a man is
as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for
himself.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
We who live beneath a sky still streaked with the smoke of
crematoria,
have paid a high price to find out that evil is really
evil.
François Mauriac (1885-1970)
Weeds always flourish.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1539)
When God sends us evil, he sends with it the weapon to
conquer it.
Paul Vincent Carroll (1900-1968)
When the snake is dead, his venom is dead.
French Proverb
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.
Isaiah 5:20
To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.
William Hazlitt
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than
to dwell
in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms 84:10
Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds
were evil.
John 3:19
Wages of sin is death.
Romans 6:23
Of two evils choose the least.
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when
occasion
is offered.
Sir Walter Raleigh
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to
see them
not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
Joseph Roux
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions
but by
his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable
to them for
the injury.
John Stuart Mill
One of the secret ambitions of many people is to be able
to enjoy some of the evils which go
with having too much money.
The man who cannot be angry at evil usually lacks
enthusiasm for good.
There's nothing consistent about human behavior except its
tendency to drift toward evil.
Few people make a deliberate choice between good and evil;
the choice is between what we
want to do and what we ought to do.
The business of the church is to get rid of evil, not to
supervise it.
Many things are worse than defeat, and compromise with
evil is one of them.
Evil deeds, like fire, can be hidden for a short time ‑
but the smoke can't.
The chief evil of many people consists not so much in
doing evil, but in permitting it
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods,
choose both.
Supervising evil does not make it good.
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole
system.
Jawaharlal Nehru
He who listens at doors hears much more than he likes.
All modern men are descended from a worm-like creature,
but it
shows more on some people.
Will Cuppy
proving that it can go either way.
Life started from a cell, and, if justice is done, a lot of
it is going to end there.
One objection to evolution is that it is too slow for this
age.
Evolution is the descent of man from monkey, which some
people forgot to make.
It's difficult to contend that man hasn't descended from
some sort of an animal as long as one
half of the world goosesteps and the other half
pussyfoots.
The question is not whether man descended from the monkey,
but when is he going to stop descending?
If evolution works, nature will eventually produce a
pedestrian who can jump three ways at once.
When you make a mountain out of a molehill, don't expect
anyone to climb up to see the view.
One of the most difficult mountains for people to climb
is the one they make out of a molehill.
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they
can't tell the truth without lying.
Exaggeration is a blood relative to falsehood, and almost
as bad.
Never exaggerate your faults ‑ leave that for your
friends.
Some folks never exaggerate. They just think big.
Some people get all their mental exercise by climbing up
and down molehills.
It's a well‑known fact that the older a man gets,
the faster he could run as a boy.
Our own faults are not minimized by magnifying the faults
of others.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others
without putting his thumb on the scales.
The faults of others are like headlights on a passing car.
They seem more glaring than our own.
No fisherman who tells the truth about his catches can
make his story very interesting.
How far a fisherman stretches the truth depends on the
length of his arms.
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
Nothing grows faster than a fish from the time he bites
until he gets away.
Anyone who finds it easy to improve his golf game probably
does it with a pencil.
Some of the world's best golf scores are made with a lead
pencil.
Gossip is like a balloon ‑ it grows bigger with
every puff.
Gossip is when someone gets wind of something and treats
it like a cyclone.
It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill ‑
just add a little dirt.
Some people are always indebted to their imagination for
facts.
If a Texan had an inferiority complex, rest assured it would
be the biggest one you can get.
African natives fish lying down, but in this country
fishermen lie standing up with their arms outstretched.
Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything ‑
except his own mistakes.
Most politicians spend half their time making promises
and the other half making excuses.
There must be a shortage of truth the way so many folks
are stretching it these days.
Some people stretch the truth; others mutilate it.
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snap back.
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
Jean Francois de Laharpe
There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't
tell the
truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Example is the greatest of all seducers.
French proverb
Nothing more contagious than a bad example.
French proverb
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good
example.
Thomas Morell
A good example is the best sermon.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
A person who lives right, and is right, has more power in
his silence
than another has by words.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Always do right. This will surprise some people and
astonish the rest.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Example is a lesson that all men can read.
Gilbert West
Example is not the main thing in influencing others-it is
the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Example is the most powerful rhetoric.
Thomas Benton Brooks (1608-1680)
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance
of a good
example.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
He who gives to me teaches me to give.
Danish Proverb
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the
way.
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
If you try to improve one person by being a good example,
you're
improving two. If you try to improve someone without being
a good
example, you won't improve anybody.
James H. Thom
If you want your neighbor to see what Christ will do for
him, let him
see what Christ has done for you.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Keep yourself clean and bright-you are the window through
which the
world sees God.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry
Man is a creature that is led more by patterns than by
precepts.
George Swinnock (D. 1673)
More depends on my walk than talk.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make
others straight.
Meng-Tzu (C. 371- C. 289 B.C.)
No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do
no harm.
Edward Hyde (1609-1674)
No person is absolutely unnecessary, one can always serve
as a
horrible example.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Nothing is so infectious as example.
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Of all commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are
the best.
John Donne (1572-1631)
One example is worth a thousand arguments.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
People seldom improve when they have no other model but
themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
Search thine own heart.
What paineth thee
In others, in thyself may be.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
So act that your principle of action might safely be made
a law for
the whole world.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
The busy bee teaches two lessons: one is not to be idle,
and the other
is not to get stung.
There are two ways of spreading light; to be a candle, or
the mirror
that reflects it.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
We can do more good by being good than in any other way.
Rowland Hill (1744-1833)
We reform others unconsciously when we act uprightly.
Madame Anne Sophie Soymanov Swetchine (1782-1857)
We taught him to steal, and the first thing he did was to
try it on us.
Arabian Proverb
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
What can't be done by advice can often be done by example.
What should not be heard by little ears, should not be
said by big
mouths.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with
your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
It's difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you
haven't been willing to try.
When a man gets too old to set a bad example, he usually
starts giving good advice.
More boys would follow in their father's footsteps if
they weren't afraid of being caught.
The footsteps a boy follows are apt to be those his father
thought he'd covered up.
Character grows in the soil of experience, with the
fertilization of example, the moisture of
desire, and the sunshine of satisfaction.
Children are a great deal more apt to follow your lead
than the way you point.
Children need strength to lean on, a shoulder to cry on,
and an example to learn from.
Maybe children could keep on the straight and narrow path
if they could get information from someone who's been over the route.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents
in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
It's extremely difficult for a child to live right if he
has never seen it done.
Many children would take after their parents if they knew
where they went.
Training a child to follow the straight and narrow way is
easy for parents ‑ all they have to do is lead the way.
Every child has a right to be both well‑fed and well‑led.
You train a child until age ten; after that you only
influence him.
If your Christianity won't work where you are, it won't
work anywhere.
If you want to convince others of the value of
Christianity ‑ live it!
A genuine Christian is the best evidence of the genuineness
of Christianity.
Christianity is a way of walking as well as a way of
talking.
If you want to defend Christianity, practice it.
Those who say they believe in Christianity and those who
practice it are not always the same people.
Christianity requires the participants to come down out of
the grandstand and onto the playing field.
Satan is perfectly willing to have a person confess
Christianity as long as he does not practice it.
Some people can talk Christianity by the yard but they
can't, or won't, walk it by the inch.
Christians are the light of the world, but the switch must
be turned on.
A Christian shows what he is by what he does with what he
has.
What the world needs is not more Christianity but more Christians
who practice Christianity.
No one is more confusing than the fellow who gives good
advice while setting a bad example.
The self‑made man is usually a pathetic example of
unskilled labor.
Example is a language all men can read.
A good example is the best sermon you can preach.
Every father should remember that one day his son will
follow his example instead of his advice.
None of us is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can
serve as horrible examples.
The worst danger that confronts the younger generation is
the example set by the older generation.
A good example has twice the value of good advice.
A great many children face the hard problem of learning
good table manners without seeing any.
The greatest gift we can bestow on others is a good
example.
What can't be done by advice can often be done by example.
Always remember there are certain people who set their
watches by your clock.
Following a good example is not always the wisest course ‑
look what happens to a counterfeiter!
People seldom improve when they have no model but
themselves.
Foreign missionaries will be more successful when they can
show Christianity to the heathen and not merely tell them about it.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
What the world wants is not advice but examples. Any fool
can talk.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is
the only thing.
No one is more confusing than the fellow who gives good
advice while setting a bad example.
A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.
People take your example far more seriously than they take
your advice.
We do more good by being good than in any other way.
People are guided to heaven more by footprints than by
guideposts.
No one will ever know of your honesty unless you give out
some samples.
People seldom improve when they have no model to copy but
themselves.
It is impossible for you to influence others to live on a
higher level than that on which you live yourself.
Just one act of yours may turn the tide of another
person's life.
Juvenile delinquency would disappear if kids followed
their parent's advice instead of their examples.
Delinquents are children who have reached the age when they
want to do what papa and mama are doing.
There would be less juvenile delinquency if parents led
the way instead of pointing to it.
The reason parents don't lead their children in the right
direction is because the parents aren't going that way themselves.
Love is more easily demonstrated than defined.
Nothing worries a parent more than the uneasy feeling
that his children are relying more on his example than his advice.
It never occurs to some politicians that
The greatest power for good is the power of example.
The prayers a man lives on his feet are just as important
as those he says on his knees.
Prayer does not need proof, it needs practice.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than
on the knees of your trousers.
The world looks at preachers out of the pulpit to know
that they mean in it.
He who practices what he preaches may have to put in some
overtime.
People are won to your religious beliefs less by description
than by demonstration.
A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
True religion is the life we live, not the creeds we
profess.
What a great world this would be if people would spend as
much energy practicing their religion as they spend quarreling about it.
The hardest job that people have is to move their religion
from their throats to their muscles.
People don't really pay much attention to what we say
about our religion, because they'd rather watch what we do about it.
It's time for us to stop putting more saints in stained
glass and start putting more in shoe leather.
It's extremely difficult to sell anyone a product you've
never used ‑ or a religion you've never lived.
To really know a man, observe his behavior with a woman, a
flat tire, and a child.
We talk a great deal of religion in this country, but we
need to stop long enough to let our feet catch up with our mouths.
It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
All sermons should have handles on them so people could
pick them up and carry them home.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with
your lips.
As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are
than by what they say.
The worst danger facing the younger generation is the example
of the older generation.
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it
is
unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere,
will come
much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency
make them
give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of
purpose.
John W. Gardner (1912- )
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
Good is not good where better is expected.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time
going around
the bases.
John W. Raper
If I had given you any parting advice it would, I think,
all have been
comprised in this one sentence: to live up always to the
best and
highest you know.
Hannah Whithall Smith (1832-1911)
There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to
glorify God
and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest
for
excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is
childish.
Max L. Lucado (1955- )
Those who attain to any excellence spend life in some one
single
pursuit, for excellence is not often gained on easier
terms.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
Daniel Considine
True excellence is rarely found; even more rarely is it
cherished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by
hard and
persistent work.
Theodore Martin
Why does everyone think he is an exception to the rules?
An excuse is usually a thin skin of falsehood stretched
tightly over a bald‑faced lie.
It is soon going to be too hot to do the job it was too
cold to do last winter.
An excuse is a statement given to cover up for a duty not
well done, or not done at all.
When you don't want to do anything, one excuse is as good
as another.
The man who really wants to do something finds a way; the
other man finds an excuse.
If you need some kind of an excuse, see your preacher; he
has heard more than anybody else.
The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.
Those who are most successful in making excuses have no
energy left for anything else.
Time wasted thinking up excuses would be better spent
avoiding the need for them.
The most prolific inventors are those who invent excuses
for their failures.
For every sin Satan is ready to provide an excuse.
A flimsy excuse is one that your wife can see through.
Great riches await the man who will manufacture crutches
for lame excuses.
Some executives call passing the buck delegating
authority.
People are great manufacturers. Some make good, others
make trouble, and some just make excuses.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good
excuse.
Thomas Szasz
A person who is going to commit an inhuman act invariably
excuses
himself by saying, "I'm only human, after all."
Sydney J. Harris
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an
excuse is a
lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
If you have an excuse, don't use it.
Most failures are expert at making excuses.
Excuses fool no one but the person who makes them.
There are always excuses available if you are weak enough
to use them.
A real man is one who finds excuses for others, but never
for himself.
You can catch some men without money, without tobacco, but
never without an excuse.
There aren't really enough crutches in the world for all
the lame excuses.
Never give an excuse that you would not be willing to
accept.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick
good men
to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to
keep from
meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
When they say a man is a "born executive," they
mean his father owns the business.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick
good people to do what he wants done, and self‑restraint enough to keep
from meddling with them while they do it.
An executive is a man who talks to the visitors while
others are doing the work.
The chief executive of a large business firm in
With some executives the real test of a good idea is
whether they thought of it first.
A good executive is one who can make decisions quickly ‑
and sometimes correctly.
Plaque on the desk of an executive: "Once I thought I
was wrong ‑ but I was mistaken."
Some executives call passing the buck delegating
authority.
A certain ineffective executive was recently fired. No one
filled his vacancy. He didn't leave one.
An executive is a fellow who can take as long as he wants
to make a snap decision.
One of the greatest failings of our present‑day
executive is his inability to do what he's supposed to do.
A survey shows that slender executives make more money than
fat ones. The chunky son of the president is apt to be an exception.
Sign on a junior executive's desk: "It's not whether
you win or lose ‑ it's how you place the blame.
An executive refused an employee's request for a raise,
adding, "I know you can't get married on what I pay you ‑and some
day you'll thank me."
An executive reports that his secretary is making two
hundred a week. Not dollars ‑mistakes!
Some big executives have computers to do all their
thinking for them. Some just have wives.
The executive most hated by those around him is the one
who is always annoying office workers by asking them to do something.
A business executive in
Executives of large industrial firms are looking for men
between twenty‑five and thirty with forty years of experience.
Sign on an executive's desk: "Don't tell me what I
mean. Let me figure it out myself."
If you want a job done fast, give it to a busy executive.
He'll have his secretary do it.
A good executive is judged by the company he keeps ‑
solvent.
Slogan of a new executive: "If you haven't developed
ulcers, you're not carrying your share of the load."
An honest executive is one who shares the credit with the
man who did all the work.
An executive is one who hires others to do the work he's
supposed to do.
A modern executive is a man who wears out his clothes at
the seat of his pants first.
Sign on a
To exercise is human; not to is divine.
Robert Orben
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it, if
you are
sick you shouldn't take it.
Henry Ford, Sr.
After dinner, rest a while, after supper walk a mile.
Arabian proverb
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by
people who
annoy me.
Fred Allen
If you don't find time to exercise you'll have to find
time for illness.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own
efforts
is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be
disappointed.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear,
Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
As a man gets wiser, he expects less, and probably gets
more than he expects.
Joseph Farrell
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us
examine how
happy those are who already possess it.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be
disappointed.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never
happen. Keep
in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.
Chinese Proverb
I cannot change yesterday. I can only make the most of
today and look
with hope toward tomorrow.
Keep your eye on the ball, your ear to the ground, and
your shoulder
to the wheel. Now-in that position-try working.
Men expect too much, do too little.
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them,
good or bad.
Jacob August Riis (1849-1914)
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Our expectation of what the human animal can learn, can
do, can be,
remains remarkably low and timorous.
George B. Leonard
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more
pleasing than
those crowned with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
There is something new every day if you look for it.
Hannah Hurnard (1905-1990)
Those who dwell continually upon their expectations are
apt to become
oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation .
Charles Sanders Pierce (1831-1914)
Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great
ship.
Benjamin Franklin
Meeting your expenses is easy--in fact, it's impossible to
avoid them.
What a wonderful world this would be if we all did as well
today as we
expect to do tomorrow.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
English Proverb
All we need to experience is that we have "passed out
of death into
life." What we need to know takes all time and
eternity.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James (1843-1916)
Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our
lives, is
the perfect preparation for the future that only he can
see.
Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)
Experience dulls the edges of all our dogmas.
Gilbert Aimé Murray (1866-1957)
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you
make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Experience is a comb that nature gives to men when they
are bald.
Experience is a costly school, yet some learn no other
way.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Experience is a dim lamp which only lights the one who
bears it.
Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test
first, the
lessons afterwards.
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is
often
purchased at an infinite rate.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it
is an
immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the
finest silken
threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and
catching every
air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James (1843-1916)
Experience is never the ground of our trust, it is the
gateway to the
One whom we trust.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it
is the best.
Spanish Proverb
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do
with what
happens to you.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Experience is that which makes a person better or bitter.
Samuel Levenson
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Arthur Helps (1813-1875)
Experience is the mother of truth; and by experience we
learn wisdom.
William Shippen, Jr. (1736-1808)
Experience is the name people give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Experience is the one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you
wanted.
Few men are worthy of experience. The majority let it
corrupt them.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
He who has not believed will not experience, and he who
has not
experienced will not understand; for just as experiencing
a thing is
better than hearing about it, so knowledge that stems from
experience
outweighs knowledge derived through hearsay.
Saint Anselm (C. 1033-1109)
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
German Proverb
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the
bullring.
Spanish Proverb
Nor deem the irrevocable past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
Henry
Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced-even a
proverb is no
proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats (1795-1821)
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of
warning.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Only he who has traveled the road knows where the holes
are deep.
Chinese Proverb
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
English Proverb
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus (First Century B.C.)
The snare of experiences is that we keep coming back to
the shore when
God wants to get us out into the deeps.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The things we have to learn before we can do them, we
learn by doing.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Truth divorced from experience will always dwell in doubt.
Henry Krause
We cannot afford to forget any experience, even the most
painful.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)
We must guard against grounding our spiritual commitment
on the
quicksands of fluctuating experiences. Experience (yes,
even revival
experience) must be constantly tested and verified by the
objective
truths of the Word of God.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the
wisdom that
is in it-and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits
down on a
hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid
again-and
that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold
one anymore.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You
cannot create
experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic
collapse.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Before we can feel the deepest tenderness for others, we
must feel the
deepest tenderness of God.
Emily Morgan
Don't bother much about your feelings. When they are
humble, loving,
brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited,
selfish,
cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are
they you, but
only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your
intentions and
your behavior.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling
one can
go through in one day.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906- )
Most Christians understand that salvation comes by faith,
apart from
feelings. But they think that the Spirit-controlled life
requires some
type of mystical experience-a feeling, a surge of power,
or being
overcome by waves of love. Those experiences are usually
not around
when you need them. What you need is spiritual power,
independent of
feelings, experiences, or circumstances. That comes when
we give each
day to God and anticipate his blessing.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in
themselves.
They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all
go bad when
they ... make themselves into false gods.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Our generation is characterized by a craze for subjective
experience.
Our society has placed an inordinate emphasis on feeling
good.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Respect in yourself the oscillations of feeling: they are
your life
and your nature; a wiser than you made them.
Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881)
There is no feeling in a human heart that exists in that
heart
alone-which is not, in some form or degree, in every
heart.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Experience teaches best because it gives you individual
instruction.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you
make it again.
Experience is what's left after you've lost everything
else.
You acquire experience in one of two ways: by doing, or by
being done.
Experience is what you get while you are looking for
something else.
Experience is what happens to you while you are making
other plans.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
Experience is the name so many people give to their
mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated
it.
John Keats
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there
is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience--well,
that
comes from poor judgment.
Anonymous
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the
clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul Sartre
He returns wisest that comes home whipped with his own
follies.
Once bit, twice shy.
The best advice you'll get is from someone who made the
same mistake himself.
Sixty‑five is the age when one acquires sufficient
experience to lose his job.
The study of the Bible is a postgraduate course in the
richest library of human experience.
Character grows in the soil of experience, with the
fertilization of example, the moisture of desire, and the sunshine of satisfaction.
Train your child in the way you now know you should have
gone yourself.
The least expensive education is to profit from the
mistakes of others ‑ and ourselves.
Education is what you get from reading the small print in
a contract. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Executives of large industrial firms are looking for men
between twenty‑five and thirty with forty years of experience.
If experience is the best teacher, many of us are mighty
poor pupils.
Experience has been described as "Compulsory
Education."
Trying to give people the benefit of your experience is
one way of getting a lot more.
Experience is about the cheapest thing a fellow can get
if he's smart enough to get it secondhand.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will
repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Experience is what helps you make an old mistake in a new
way.
The wealth of experience is one possession that has not
yet been taxed.
About all some of us get from experience is experience.
Experience is what you have left after you've pulled the
boner.
Past experience should be a guidepost ‑ not a
hitching post.
Don't expect to buy experience at a discount house ‑
it can't be done.
A wise man learns by the experience of others. An
ordinary man learns by his own experience. A fool learns by nobody's experience.
Every time you think you've graduated from the school of
experience, somebody thinks up a new course.
Experience is the best teacher, and considering what it
costs, it should be.
It requires experience to know how to use it.
It was bitter experience that put the "prod"
into the prodigal son.
There is no way to get experience except through
experience.
Experience makes a person better or bitter.
Experience is not only an expensive teacher, but by the
time you get through her school, life is over.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of
warning.
Experience is sometimes a very costly commodity that
rarely has little resale value.
Some people speak from experience; others, from experience
don't speak.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't seem to reduce
our follies.
Some people profit by their experiences; others never
recover from them.
Experience may be a thorough teacher, but no man lives
long enough to graduate.
If a man could sell his experiences for what they cost
him, he would never need Social Security.
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting
something else.
The school of experience would be more pleasant if there
were a vacation once in a while.
Experience is what you've got when you're too old to get a
job.
The school of experience never changes; it always issues
its diplomas on the roughest grade of sandpaper.
If experience is the best teacher, how is it that some
husbands still think they're the boss of the family?
We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second
baby just to see it smile.
Experience may not be worth what it costs, but we can't
seem to get it for any less.
Many people are beginning to learn that the cost of experience
has gone up like everything else.
Experience is a form of knowledge acquired in only two
ways ‑ by doing and by being done.
One reason experience is such a good teacher is that she
doesn't allow any dropouts.
Experience is what prevents you from making the same
mistake again in exactly the same way.
There is no free tuition in the school of experience.
By the time you learn all the lessons of life, you're too
old and weak to walk to the head of the class.
Experience is what makes your mistakes so familiar.
Very few people listen to the voice of experience ‑
they heed only the kick in the pants.
Experience surely teaches that there's a small but
important difference between keeping your chin up and sticking your neck out.
About the time one makes good marks in the school of
experience he is old enough to retire.
Experience is a great teacher, but the fees are high.
Unused experience is a dead loss.
Experience is one thing you can't get on the easy payment
plan.
The proof that experience teaches us nothing is that the
end of one love affair does not prevent us from beginning another.
Experience is what teaches you that you need a lot more.
Another reason why experience is the best teacher ‑
she is always on the job.
Experience is what tells you to watch your step, and it is
also what you get if you don't.
When you pay for experience, be sure to keep the receipt.
Experience may be the best teacher, but she's not the
prettiest.
A failure is a man who has blundered and is not able to
cash in on the experience.
Old fools are the biggest fools. This is quite natural
because they've had more experience.
One‑fifth of the population of the
The most difficult school is the school of hard knocks.
One never graduates.
A person becomes wise by observing what happens when he
isn't.
Our wisdom usually comes from our experience, and our
experience comes largely from our foolishness.
The man who has to eat his own words never asks for
another serving.
If it weren't for picketing many Americans wouldn't walk
at all.
Walking a mile for a cigarette may be healthier than
smoking one.
Jumping to conclusions is about the only exercise some
people get.
Those who perform the modern dance exercise everything
except discretion.
It's time to go on a diet when you notice you're puffing
going down stairs.
Walking is good exercise if you can dodge those who
aren't.
Digging for facts is better mental exercise than jumping
to conclusions.
If exercise is so good for us, why do so many athletes
retire at thirty‑five?
The exercise that wears most people out is running out of
cash.
There's nothing like a little exercise to change a man's
life ‑ especially if it's a walk down a church aisle.
The best exercise today is hunting for bargains.
If it weren't for giving directions, some people wouldn't
get any exercise at all.
The stock market gives you a lot of exercise ‑ you
run scared, lift your hopes, and push your luck.
About the only exercise some young fellows get is running
out of money and after women.
Some people get all their mental exercise by climbing up
and down molehills.
The best thing to get out of exercise is rest.
Thanks to jogging more people are collapsing in perfect
health than ever before.
A woman in
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to
conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward,
lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their luck.
If some people didn't lift their eyebrows they never would
get any exercise.
The only exercise some people get in the morning is
brushing their teeth and sharpening their tongues.
Many a man who is too tired to help around the house plays
golf for exercise.
Violent exercise after sixty is apt to be harmful ‑
especially if you do it with a knife and fork.
Exercise doesn't make you nearly as hungry as thinking
does ‑ especially thinking about food.
The only exercise some people get is pulling ice trays out
of the refrigerator.
About the only part of the body that is over exercised is
the lower jaw.
The trouble with some wives is that their idea of exercise
is making bank withdrawals.
The best exercise is to exercise discretion at the dining
table.
Many men hire someone to mow their lawns so they can play
golf for exercise.
The trouble with being physically fit is that you're apt
to wear yourself out trying to stay that way.
The physical condition of a man can best be judged from
what he takes two of at a time ‑stairs or pills.
If you must exercise, why not exercise kindness?
You've reached middle age when all you exercise is
caution.
A sleepwalker is the only person who gets his rest and his
exercise at the same time.
A style expert can make a woman feel modest when she
doesn't look it.
An expert can take something you already know and make it
sound confusing.
An expert knows all the answers ‑ if you ask the
right questions.
The public would have greater respect for the judgments of
experts if the experts would agree.
Often an expert is the fellow you employ to do what you'd
rather not.
Be careful about calling yourself an expert. An ex is a
has‑been, and a spurt is a drip under pressure.
The trouble with being an expert is that you can't turn to
anybody else for advice.
An expert is someone who doesn't know any more than you do
but is better organized.
Fashion experts tell us that women dress to express
themselves ‑ but on that basis, some have very little to say.
An expert is always able to create confusion out of
simplicity.
What this country needs today is fewer experts on what
this country needs.
An expert is a man who doesn't know all the answers, but
is sure that if he's given enough money he can find them.
The function of an expert is not to be right more than
other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.
An expert is a man from another city; the farther away the
city, the greater the expert.
Have you noticed that an expert will gladly give you his
advice fee‑ly?
If you want to know how to handle a big fortune, ask the
man who hasn't any.
If the world blew itself up, the last audible voice would
be that of an expert saying it couldn't be done.
He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.
Japanese proverb
Americans sink millions of dollars in unsound financial
schemes, one of which is trying to keep up with the neighbors.
Extravagance is anything you buy that you can't put on a
credit card.
The extravagant girl usually makes a poor mother and a
bankrupt father.
One reason why a great many American families don't own
an elephant is that they have never been offered one for a dollar down and a
dollar a week.
Buying what you don't need often ends up in needing what
you can't buy.
Most of us would be better off financially if it weren't
for the extravagance of our neighbors.
We never knew what real extravagance was until we had this
so‑called planned economy.
The thing that keeps some men broke is not the wolf at the
door but the silver fox in the window.
Extravagance is buying whatever is of no earthly value to
your wife.
Most husbands know what an extravaganza is. They married
one.
Thanks to inflation it's costing more than ever to live
beyond our means.
Too many of us spend our time the way politicians spend
our money.
Increased earnings nearly always lead to increased
yearnings.
It is especially hard to work for money you've already
spent for something you didn't need.
The remarkable thing about most of us is our ability to
live beyond our means.
The average man's ambition is to be able to afford what
he's spending.
If Americans bought only what they could afford it would
destroy our economy.
The average American doesn't really believe he is having a
good time unless he is doing something he can't afford.
Living on a budget is the same as living beyond your
means except that you have a record of it.
The American dream is owning a British sports car, smoking
a
Planned economy is fast becoming calculated extravagance.
An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or it
can
insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood,
by beams of
kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson