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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at
the other.
Ronald Knox
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the
last.
Charles Dickens
Feeding a baby is one sure way of finding out how badly
your suit spots.
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot
conscientiously be
regarded as a thing of beauty.
Mark Twain
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg
A Baby Boomer is a man who hires someone to cut the grass
so he can
play golf for the exercise.
A baby sitter is not experienced until
she knows which kid to sit with and which kid to sit on.
There's an art to baby sitting. It isn't
easy to watch TV, read a book, and eat a ‑sandwich while the kids are
crying.
A baby sitter is a teen‑ager you
hire to let your children do whatever they are big enough to do.
A baby sitter is a teen‑ager who
behaves like an adult, while the adults are out behaving like teen‑agers.
Baby sitting is a big business because it
meets a crying need.
It's extremely difficult for a baby
sitter to wake up five or ten minutes before the par home.
A baby sitter feeds the baby at ten,
twelve, and two ‑ and herself at nine, eleven, and one.
A baby sitter is a teen‑ager who
behaves like an adult, while the adults are out behaving like teen‑agers.
Little Willie is at the awkward age ‑
too young to leave him home alone, and too old to trust with baby sitters.
One of life's mysteries is why a girl who
has done baby‑sitting ever gets married.
A grandmother is a baby sitter who watches
the kids instead of the television.
Nowadays it's easy for a bachelor to remain single. Every
time he turns his TV set on he hears that most women have stringy hair, rough
red hands, bad breath, and are overweight.
A
Any bachelor knows that June rhymes with groom and doom.
A bachelor is a man who is completely dedicated to life,
liberty, and the happiness of pursuit.
The happiest day of a bachelor's life is the one when he
almost got married but didn't.
Bachelors avoid a woman who has a ring in her voice.
Any man who speaks without fear of contradiction is
probably a bachelor.
Many bachelors claim they never got married because they
couldn't afford the luxury of a divorce.
A man who refuses to fight used to be called a coward.
Today they call him a bachelor.
There are two kinds of bachelors: those too fast to be
caught, and those too slow to be worth catching.
Most bachelors have quit chasing girls ‑they can't
find any that'll run.
Did you hear about the bachelor who said he could have
married any girl he pleased, but he never could find one he pleased?
Lots of men are bachelors by choice ‑ a choice some
girls didn't want to make.
A bachelor is a man who takes advantage of the fact that
marriage isn't compulsory.
Flattery is what makes husbands out of bachelors.
A girl admires the tone of a bachelor's voice when there's
a ring in it.
In
When a husband dreams he's a bachelor, it's a sign he's
going to be disappointed when he wakes up.
Kissing is a practice that shortens life ‑ single
life!
The thought of marriage frightens a lot of bachelors ‑
and a few husbands too!
Kissing is a practice that shortens life ‑ single
life!
Warning to all single men: There's a new perfume on the
market with a secret ingredient ‑ it makes a man think he can support a
wife.
A wife is a great comfort to a husband during the
distressing times a bachelor never has.
Give a bachelor enough rope and he'll detect the noose.
There are four ways for a bachelor to remain happy: north,
south,
east, and west.
A smart bachelor stops up his ears when a woman's voice
has a ring
in it.
Not all men are fools – some are bachelors.
A bachelor is a man who can keep his foot out of a
trap--particularly his own.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man
in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
The back fence is the shortest distance between two
gossips.
A backache is man's greatest labor-saving device.
A bad reaper never gets a good sickle.
Gaelic proverb
Bad luck is bending over to pick up a four-leaf clover and
being
infected by poison ivy.
A gentleman complains that when long hair became stylish
his started to fall out.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Hair seems important only when we no longer have any.
A man in
People worry about their gray hair, but it's actually
great to have gray hair. Ask any man who's bald.
People are always telling a woman how pretty her hair
looks ‑ but the only time they comment about a man's hair is when he no
longer has any.
No baldheaded man was ever converted by a sermon during
the fly season.
Men usually worry more about losing their hair than their
heads.
Nothing better has ever been developed for baldness than a
hat.
There's one nice thing about baldness ‑ it's neat.
Man's oldest fall‑out problem is baldness.
Sadder than falling leaves is falling hair.
To the baldheaded man, dandruff is a thrill.
There's a new remedy on the market for baldness. It's
made of alum and persimmon juice. It doesn't grow hair but it shrinks your head
to fit what hair you have left.
Nature seems determined to make us work. The less hair we
have, the more face we have to wash.
Baldheaded people should remember that when God made heads
He covered up the ones He didn't like.
The advantage of being bald is this: When you expect
callers, all you have to do is straighten your tie.
Our great problem is not production, but distribution.
This strikes a baldheaded man with peculiar force every time he shaves.
The baldheaded man may be ridiculed, but he's the first in
the group to know when it starts to rain.
Better a bald head than none at all.
A bald head is something nobody wants to have, and nobody
wants to lose.
Baldheaded men never think of themselves as bald; they
think everybody else is hairy.
Barbers seem to take great delight in calling attention to
the bald spot that you're trying to forget.
The big advantage of being bald is that you can style your
hair
with a damp cloth.
Last night I read a book that brought tears to my eyes--it
was my
bankbook.
Some banks guarantee maximum interest rates for several
years, which is more than a marriage license can do.
There's a bank in
Bank interest on a loan is so high that if you can afford
to pay it you don't need the loan.
Drive‑in banks were established so that automobiles
could see their real owners occasionally.
A bank is a place where you can keep the government's
money until the IRS asks for it.
Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation.
The new club helps you save money to pay for last year's gifts.
A bank is a financial institution where you can borrow
money if you can present sufficient evidence to show that you don't need it.
Said a banker's son, "My pop went on a diet; there
was too much collateral in his blood."
Many people seem to think a home is only good to borrow
money on.
Modern prosperity means two cars in the garage, a boat in
the driveway, and a note due at the bank.
Being prosperous means your credit is good enough to
borrow money at the bank.
If money doesn't grow on trees, how come banks continue to
sprout
branches?
I know of a bank that is so big that they even have a
special
window for hold-ups.
Banks are peculiar institutions that urge you to save as
much as
possible of what you earn and urge you to borrow as much
as you can
spend, so you can spend more than you make.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding
up a bank
clerk.
Bertolt Brecht
At most banquets you'll find more after‑dinner
speakers than after‑dinner listeners.
Too often a banquet is a plate of cold chicken and peas
surrounded by warm appeals for funds.
The banquet's honored guest was introduced as follows:
"We're very pleased to have as our guest speaker a man who has to catch a
plane in twenty minutes."
A banquet is an affair where you eat a lot of food you
don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of
people who don't want to hear what you have to say.
No man is as smart as he sounds at his alumni banquet.
Baptism points back to the work of God, and forward to the
life of faith.
J. Alice Motyer
In baptism, the Christian is born. His old self is buried
and the new
self emerges. Whether in the case of infants or adults,
baptism
signifies this more as a promise than as an actually
fulfilled fact.
The direction is indicated rather than the arrival.
Friedrich Rest (1913- )
A barber's remarks are sometimes more keen and cutting
than his razor.
Barbers seem to take great delight in calling attention to
the bald spot that you're trying to forget.
Most barbers have a scraping acquaintance with a great
many people.
Sign in a
The only difference between a "hair stylist" and
a regular barber is the price.
One guy who always goes to the top is a barber.
Then there's the barber whose specialty is "roadmap
shaves"; when he's done, your face is full of short cuts.
Nothing makes a barber suffer in silence as much as not
talking.
Nowadays everything is a bargain ‑ because by the
time you get it home the price has gone up.
A bargain is when two people are sure they got the better
of each other.
It's easy to tell when you've got a bargain ‑it
doesn't fit.
Soon after purchasing a used car a man finds out how hard
it is to drive a bargain.
A bargain sale is where women fight for merchandise
that's reduced in price because nobody wanted it in the first place.
Anything you buy at a low price that you don't need is not
a bargain.
A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't
resist.
One of the best bargains you can get these days is parking
on what's left of the other fellow's dime.
A bargain is anything that is only moderately overpriced.
A bargain is something that looks better than it is and
sells for less than it was.
A bargain is defined as a "ludicrous transaction in
which each party thinks he has cheated the other."
There would be fewer divorces if women hunted for husbands
with as much thought as they hunt for bargains.
The best exercise today is hunting for bargains.
Good government is a bargain at any price.
Heaven is a bargain, however great the cost.
One of the problems of modern life is for a husband to
teach his wife that even bargains cost money.
Don't buy it for a song ‑ unless you're sure you
know what the pitch is.
One of the most difficult tasks in the world is to
convince women that even a bargain costs money.
A bargain is anything that costs no more today than it
did last week.
Today a bargain is anything that is only moderately
overpriced.
Women may be the weaker sex, but not at a
bargain counter.
"Bad, bad," says the buyer; but
when he goes his way, then he
boasts.
Proverbs 20:14
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
Barking dogs seldom bite.
His bark is worse than his bite.
Many a man goes into a bar for an eye-opener and comes out
blind.
My doctor told me to take a bath before retiring. But the
way
business is going, I won't be able to retire for twenty
years.
I spent a weekend at the beach and couldn't decide whether
bikinis
are getting smaller or girls are getting bigger.
With bathing suits being what they are today, the girls
who
complain they have nothing to wear are usually wearing it.
The most frightening horror tales are those told by bathroom
scales.
I'm using a square bathtub so I can't get a ring.
Beatitudes, just by virtue of having been spoken by him,
have enriched
our mortal existence beyond imagining, putting a yeast of
love into
the unlikely dough of human greed and human spite and
human
willfulness, so that it can rise marvelously.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
If you were to take the sum total of all authoritative
articles ever
written by the most qualified of psychologists and
psychiatrists on
the subject of mental hygiene-if you were to combine them
and refine
them and cleave out the excess verbiage-if you were to
take the whole
of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to
have these
unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely
expressed by
the most capable of living poets, you would have an
awkward and
incomplete summation of the Sermon on the Mount. And it
would suffer
immeasurably through comparison. For nearly two thousand
years the
has been holding in its hands the complete answer to
its restless and fruitless yearnings. Here. . . rests the
blueprint
for successful human life with optimism, mental health,
and
contentment.
J. T. Fisher
The People's Beatitudes:
Happy are the pushers for they get on in the world.
Happy are the hard-boiled for they never let life hurt
them.
Happy are they who complain for they get their own way in
the end.
Happy are the blasé for they never worry over their sins.
Happy are the slave drivers for they get results.
Happy are the knowledgeable men of the world for they know
their
way around.
Happy are the troublemakers for they make people take
notice of
them.
J. B. Phillips (1906-1982)
We hear it said that Jesus Christ taught nothing contrary
to common
sense. Everything Jesus Christ taught was contrary to
common sense.
Not one thing in the Sermon on the Mount is common sense.
The basis of
Christianity is neither common sense nor rationalism.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Christianity will go. We're more popular than Jesus now.
John Lennon
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases;
it will
never pass into nothingness. . . .
John Keats (1795-1821)
Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. Welcome
it in every
fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and
thank God for
it as a cup of blessing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without
perfume.
French Proverb
God's fingers can touch nothing but to mould it into
loveliness.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
The beautiful can have but one source . . . God.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can
express.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Beauty always comes from within--within jars, tubes, and
compacts.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade
Beauty and honesty seldom agree.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.
French proverb
Beauty is a short-lived reign.
Socrates
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
Juvenal
Early to bed and early to rise is a sure sign that you're
fed up
with television.
As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.
Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Man has made his bedlam; let him lie in it.
Fred Allen
We learn two lessons from the bees: one is not to be idle,
and the
other is not to get stung.
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
Better to beg than steal, but better to work than beg.
Russian proverb
Beggars should be no choosers.
Everything is difficult at first.
Chinese proverb
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Everything must have a beginning.
Good to begin well, better to end well.
He who begins many things, finishes but few.
The first step is as good as half over.
The beginning is half the whole.
Greek proverb
Well begun is half done.
Horace
Before beginning, prepare carefully.
I start where the last man left off.
Thomas Edison
Begin it, and the work will be completed.
Johann Goethe
Once begun, a task is easy.
Horace
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of
ending.
Henry W. Longfellow
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
What a man desires he easily believes.
Seeing is believing.
Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree
my
confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy, and I am
angry with
him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson
If you love not the noise of bells, why do you pull the
ropes?
A full belly is the mother of all evil.
An empty belly hears nobody.
When the belly is full, the mind is amongst the maids.
Best to bend while it is a twig.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget
it.
Benjamin Franklin
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
To accept a benefit is to sell one's freedom.
Latin proverb
If you stop to think about it, there are very few benefits
in your
life for which you can take sole credit.
Gary Smalley
The best things in life are free.
Better a bare foot than none at all.
Better to wear out than to rust out.
Beware of no man more than of thyself.
Think what others ought to be like, then start being like
that yourself.
To know what is right and not do it is as bad as doing
wrong.
Statistics show there are three ages when men misbehave:
young, old, and middle.
The surest way to gain respect is to earn it by conduct.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be
nice.
There are no detour signs along the straight and narrow
path.
Anybody whose behavior is normal these days is probably
considered to be slightly eccentric.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or
believes.
How did people ever get along before they had all those
government bureaus to tell them what to do?
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.
A father is usually more pleased to have his child look
like him than act like him.
None of us is responsible for all the things that happen
to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.
We count our blessings on our fingers and our miseries on
an adding machine.
Men and nations do behave wisely, once all other
alternatives have been exhausted.
We try to see some good in everybody we meet, but
occasionally there are some folks who make us realize our eyesight isn't as
good as it once was.
The behavior of some children suggests that their parents
embarked on the sea of matrimony without a paddle.
Don't be a carbon copy of something. Make your own
impressions.
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose
at a friendly level.
You can't hold another fellow down in the ditch unless you
stay down there with him.
Some people never say anything bad about the dead, or
anything good about the living.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if everybody behaved as he
thinks the other fellow ought to behave?
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he
pleases to do right.
When people speak evil of you, live so that no one will
believe them.
It's easy to save face. Just keep the lower half of it
tightly closed.
Blowing out the other fellow's candle won't make yours
shine any brighter.
By the time most folks learn to behave themselves they're
too old to do anything else.
Good behavior gets a lot of credit that really belongs to
a lack of opportunity.
You are young only once. If you act foolish after that
you'll have to find some other excuse.
There's nothing consistent about human behavior except
its tendency to drift toward evil.
Judging from the way some people behave these days, they
must think that hell is air‑conditioned!
We should never assume that people are going to behave as
we expect them to.
Many pious people would rather study the Bible than
practice what it teaches.
The business to stay out of is the other fellow's.
Some people continue to change jobs, mates, and friends ‑
but never think of changing themselves.
A true test of a man's character is not what he does in
the light, but what he does in the dark.
It isn't what you have, but what you are, that makes life
worthwhile.
Children disgrace us in public by behaving just like we do
at home.
The better we understand Christianity, the less satisfied
we are with our practice of it.
If people have to ask you if you're a Christian ‑
you're probably not.
Every Christian occupies some kind of a pulpit and
preaches some kind of a sermon every day.
Conventions are something a lot of people leave behind
when they attend one.
A person's faith is not judged by what he says about it,
but by what he does about it.
Faith with works is a force. Faith without works is a
farce.
No one will ever know of your honesty unless you give out
some samples.
A lot of good behavior is due to poor health.
Folks would enjoy us more if we gave as much thought to
our own behavior as we do to our neighbor's.
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
When you make a mountain out of a molehill, don't expect
anyone to climb up to see the view.
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.
Most of us don't put our best foot forward until we get
the other one in hot water.
No man is as smart as he sounds at his alumni banquet.
No one can stay young very long, but some manage to act
like children all their lives.
What a scarcity of news there would be if everybody obeyed
the Ten Commandments!
Actually there's only a slight difference between keeping
your chin up and sticking your neck out, but it's worth knowing.
Temper gets people into trouble, but pride keeps them
there.
We all might as well face our problems. We can't run fast
or far enough to get away from them all.
There's a growing suspicion that what the world needs now
is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.
A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
We are more comfortable with Christ in print than in
practice.
True religion is the life we live, not the creeds we
profess.
People don't really pay much attention to what we say
about our religion, because they'd rather watch what we do about it.
Your religion doesn't amount to very much unless it causes
you to come out of the grandstand onto the playing field.
If some folks lost their reputation, they should consider
themselves very lucky.
What chance can a man have to control his destiny when he
can't control himself?
You never have to take a dose of your own medicine if you
know when to keep your mouth shut.
An open mind and a closed mouth make a happy combination.
Spending half of the time keeping quiet and the other half
saying nothing is one way to keep out of trouble.
Might as well keep your mouth shut. If you talk about
yourself you're a bore, and if you talk about others you're a gossip.
A man's conscience, and not his mattress, has most to do
with his sleep.
If you can't crown yourself with laurels, you can wreathe
your face in smiles.
To succeed ‑ keep your head up and your overhead
down.
A successful man continues to look for work after he has
found a job.
Some men succeed by what they know, some by what they do,
and a few by what they are.
One secret of success is to be able to put your best foot
forward without stepping on anybody's toes.
When in
The kind of behavior that once brought shame and disgrace
now brings a book, movie, or a television contract.
To really know a man, observe his behavior with a woman, a
flat tire, and a child.
Most of us want other people's children to behave the way
ours should.
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone reflects his own
image.
When adults behave like children we call them juvenile;
when children behave like adults we call them delinquents.
Be grateful to the beggar; he gives you the chance to do
good.
Jewish Proverb
Bread for myself is a material question; bread for my
neighbor is a
spiritual question.
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good
actions; try to
use ordinary situations.
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825)
In this world it is not what we take up but what we give
up that makes
us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that
everyone else
has a share and that no one starves while I eat.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
The best portions of a good man's life-His little,
nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Who gives to the poor, lends to God.
Spanish Proverb
This night, before the cock crow,
thou shalt deny me thrice.
Matthew 26:34
Judas, betrayest thou the Son of
man with a kiss?
Luke 22:48
A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words,
and he may
betray him through keeping his mouth shut.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Does not he to whom you betray another. . . know that you
will at
another time do as much for him?
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his Master,
And cried, "All hail," whereas he meant all
harm.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis
Singer (1904-1991)
A Bible that's falling apart probably belongs to someone
who isn't.
Christian Johnson
A bit of the Book in the morning, to order my onward way.
A bit of the Book in the evening, to hallow the end of the
day.
Margaret Sangster (1838-1912)
A glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun;
It gives a light to every age,
It gives, but borrows none.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among
the trees of
the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene.
Always a living
Person is present, speaking, pleading, loving, working,
and
manifesting himself whenever and wherever his people have
the
receptivity necessary to receive the manifestation.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her
photographs
because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord
Jesus, we
shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
John R. W. Stott (1921- )
A new world will arise out of the religious mists when we
approach our
Bible with the idea that it is . . . a book which is now
speaking.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads
us.
W H. Auden (1907-1973)
It takes a big man to sympathize ‑ a little man can
criticize, and usually does.
Formula for tact: Be brief, politely; be aggressive,
smilingly; be emphatic, pleasantly; be positive, diplomatically; be right,
graciously.
Teen‑agers haven't changed very much. They still
grow up, leave home, and get married. The big difference is that today they
don't always do it in that order.
Trouble causes some people to go to pieces; others to come
to their senses.
The best way to surprise your wife is frequently.
Will power cannot be furnished by anyone but you.
What a nice world this world would be if we loved others
as we love ourselves.
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time ‑
the cemetery.
We are only young once. This is all society can stand.
Being young comes only once in life. The trick is to make
it last as long as you can.
About the only way to stay young is to live honestly, eat
sensibly, sleep well, work hard, worship regularly, and lie about your age.
Bible
A small town newspaper in
The Bible is most helpful when it is open.
A Bible that's falling apart often belongs to one who
isn't.
Thousands of people don't like the Bible because it
cramps their lifestyle.
Carrying a Bible will never take the place of reading it.
The most desirable time to read the Bible is as often as
possible.
Keep your Bible open and you will not find the door to
heaven shut.
A Bible in the hand is worth two in the bookcase.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all
the books I
have ever read.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a
college
education.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may
actually be
dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must
be read in
relation to the whole message.
Louis Cassels (1922-1974)
As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking
man.
Saint Ambrose (C. 340-397)
Be astounded that God should have written to us.
Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery,
the Bible
walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet and
enters land
after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to
speak in
hundreds of languages to the heart of man. It comes into
the palace to
tell the monarch that he is a servant of the Most High,
and into the
cottage to assure the peasant that he is a son of God.
Children listen
to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men
ponder them as
parables of life.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
Centuries of experience have tested the Bible. It has
passed through
critical fires no other volume has suffered, and its
spiritual truth
has endured the flames and come out without so much as the
smell of
burning.
W. E. Sangster
If you couldn't get another Bible, what would yours be
worth?
Dust on your Bible is not evidence that it is a dry book.
Many Christians expect the world to respect a book they
neglect.
How can you have faith in the Bible unless you know what's
in it.
A book which will lift men up to God must have come down
from God.
Satan can quote Scripture for his purpose.
The Bible contains the vitamins for a healthy soul.
Bible verses will save you from spiritual reverses.
It's a terrible responsibility to own a Bible. We should
study the Bible as a privilege, not as a duty.
Don't criticize the Bible; let the Bible criticize you.
The Bible has nothing to fear ‑ except neglect.
Read your Bible. A chapter a day keeps Satan away.
The Bible is the constitution of Christian civilization.
A Bible known is worth a dozen merely owned.
The Bible is not only the world's best seller, it is man's
best purchase.
A Bible stored in the mind is worth a dozen stored in the
bottom of a trunk.
The Bible promises no loaves to the loafer.
One evidence of the value of the Bible is the character of
those who oppose it.
Satan is not afraid of a Bible with dust on it. Those who
don't read the Bible have no advantage over those who can't read it.
Study the Bible to be wise, believe it to be safe,
practice it to be holy.
Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts
itself, but because it contradicts them. No one is saved by buying a Bible he
does
not use, nor is one saved by reading a Bible he does not
obey.
Go to your Bible regularly, open it prayerfully, read it
expectantly, live it joyfully.
An aged grandfather explained why he reads the Bible
several hours every day, "You might say I am cramming for my final examination."
One of the best evidences of the inspiration and infallibility
of the Bible is that it has survived the fanaticism and ignorance of its
friends.
Bumper stick on a car in
There are a number of splendid translations
of the Bible. However, the most effective is its
translation into the lives of people.
A person who merely samples the Word of God never acquires
much of a taste for it.
The family Bible can be passed from generation to
generation because it gets so little wear.
The Bible is a book of prayers. Out of 667 recorded
prayers, there are 454 recorded answers.
Other books were given to us for information, but the
Bible was given to us for transformation.
The value of the Bible doesn't consist in merely knowing
it, but in obeying it.
If you will carry the Bible while you are young, it will
carry you when you are old.
The study of the Bible is a postgraduate course in the
richest library of human experience.
You can't understand all you read in the Bible, but you
can obey what you do understand.
The Bible finds us where we are, and, with our permission,
will take us where we ought to go.
Our forefathers built this country with three tools: an
ax, a plow, and a book. That book was the Bible.
Many pious people would rather study the Bible than
practice what it teaches.
If all the neglected Bibles in this country were dusted
off at the same time, we would suffer the worst dust storm in years.
Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee
The prophets wrote and spoke;
Unlock the truth, thyself the key,
Unseal the sacred book.
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your
head for a
pillow when you are dying? Very well; that is the book you
want to
study when you are living. There is only one such book in
the world.
Joseph Cook (1838-1901)
Every Christian must refer always and everywhere to the
Scriptures for
all his choices, becoming like a child before it, seeking in
it the
most effective remedy against all his various weaknesses,
and not
daring to take a step without being illuminated by the
divine rays of
those words.
Pope John Paul II (1920- )
Father made me learn so many Bible verses every day that
by the time I
was eleven years of age, I had learned about three fourths
of the Old
Testament and all of the New by heart.
John Muir (1838-1914)
One controlling, guiding, unifying mind must have been
operative
through all the weary ages to produce out of such composite
elements a
result so wonderfully unique, uplifting, and unfathomable
as the
Bible; and that mind in the nature of things could not
have been
human.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
The Gideons should send a Bible to those hotel
authorities who determine the room rates.
A thumbprint on the Bible is more important than a
footprint on the moon.
The way some people use the "Sword of the
Spirit," one would think it was made for splitting hairs.
If the Bible is mistaken in telling us from whence we
came, how can we trust it to tell us where we are going?
It is impossible to mentally and socially enslave a Bible‑reading
people.
There's a vast difference between books that men make and
the BOOK that makes men.
Noah was the first businessman mentioned in the Bible. He
floated a company at a time when the rest of the world was under liquidation.
In the Book of Revelation we read of a book which no man
could open. Some believe this was the pocketbook.
Our Lord does not open the windows of heaven to the person
who keeps his Bible closed.
The knowledge, understanding, and appropriation of God's
Word are the means by which a Christian grows.
A real highbrow is a person who can quote Shakespeare
without attributing it to the Bible.
The Bible has vitamins for a healthy soul.
If some Christians knew as little about their jobs as they
do the Bible, they would have to be guided to their work benches every morning.
A critically‑ill lawyer was found frantically leafing
through the Bible in his hospital room. When asked the reason, he replied,
"Looking for loopholes."
The Bible admonishes us to love our neighbors, and also
to love our enemies ‑ probably because they are generally the same
people.
An immoral man is dangerous whether he is armed with a
rifle or a Bible.
The sword of the Spirit never becomes dull from use.
Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some
people will ever read.
No matter how many new translations of the Bible are made,
the people still sin the same way.
The three greatest sins of today are indifference to,
neglect of, and disrespect for the Word of God.
The only way to succeed in life is to work hard, stay
clean, walk with your back to the wall, and keep your Bible handy.
The student of truth keeps an open Bible, an open
dictionary, and an open mind.
Give the Bible to the people, unadulterated, pure,
unaltered,
unexplained, uncheapened, and then see it work through the
whole
nature. It is very difficult indeed for a man or for a boy
who knows
the Scriptures ever to get away from it. It follows him
like the
memory of his mother. It haunts him like an old song. It
reminds him
like the word of an old and revered teacher. It forms a
part of the
warp and woof of his life.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be
read at a
distance by unaided minds. He spoke a book and lives in
his spoken
words, constantly speaking his words and causing the power
of them to
persist across the years.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son
is the
theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author,
authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
J. I. Packer (1926- )
God's Book is packed full of overwhelming riches; they are
unsearchable-the more we have the more there is to have.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
He was great on texts, the doctor was. When he had a point
to prove,
he'd just go through the Bible and drive all the texts
ahead of him
like a flock of sheep; and then, if there was a text that
seemed
against him, why, he'd come out with his Greek and Hebrew
and kind of
chase it around a spell, just as you see a fellow chase a
contrary
bell-weather, and make him jump the fence after the rest.
I tell you,
there wasn't no text in the Bible that could stand against
the doctor
when his blood was up .
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
He who hath heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
How petty are the books of the philosophers with all their
pomp
compared with the Gospels!
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
However powerful and learned he may be, the Bible always
sets man face
to face with God, reminding him thus of his frailty and
his weakness.
Paul Tournier (1898-1986)
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I
wonder why
they deprive themselves of the strength and the pleasure .
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. For when I am to
read a
chapter in the Bible, before I begin I look where it ends.
And if it
ends not on the same side, I cannot keep my hands from
turning over
the leaf, to measure the length on the other side; if it
swells to
many verses, I begin to grudge. Surely my heart is not
rightly
affected. Were I truly hungry after heavenly food, I would
not
complain of meat. Scourge, Lord, this laziness of my soul;
make the
reading of your Word, not a penance, but a pleasure to me;
so I may
esteem that chapter in your Word the best which is the
longest.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at a
greater depth of
my being than any other book.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
I never had any doubt about it being of divine origin. . .
point out
to me any similar collection of writings that has lasted
for as many
thousands of years and is still a best-seller, world-wide.
It had to
be of divine origin.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911- )
I never knew all there was in the Bible until I spent
those years in
jail. I was constantly finding new treasures.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
I read my Bible to know what people ought to do, and my
newspaper to
know what they are doing.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
I study my Bible as I gather apples. First, I shake the
whole tree
that the ripest might fall. Then I shake each limb, and
when I have
shaken each limb, I shake each branch and every twig. Then
I look
under every leaf.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
I use the Scripture, not as an arsenal, to be resorted to
only for
arms and weapons. . . but as a matchless temple, where I
delight to be
to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry and the
magnificence of the
structure.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
I was reading the Bible in many different languages, and I
saw that it
cannot really be translated, the real meaning cannot be
given in
another language. It is only in Hebrew that you feel the
full meaning
of it-all the associations which a different word has.
David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973)
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never
failed to
give me light and strength.
Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870)
In teaching me the way to live, it taught me how to die.
George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
In the Bible there is no twilight, but intense light and
intense
darkness.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
In the case of Shakespeare the dependence is so obvious as
to have
obtained from Emerson the verdict, "Shakespeare leans
upon the Bible."
His mind is saturated with Scripture. He thinks naturally
in terms of
Scripture. These are the marks of one who has read and
absorbed the
Bible. Indeed, so close is the resemblance of Shakespeare
to the Bible
in quality and tone that memory sometimes stumbles and we
ask, "Is
this from the one or the other?" To take the Bible
out of Shakespeare
would leave not merely a great gap-it would leave a deep
wound in the
side. The Bible is woven in with the very texture of the
immortal
plays. If the Bible were lost, much of its language and
incident,
together with much of its spirit, would be preserved to us
in
Shakespeare.
Edgar W. Work
In the Old Testament the new lies hidden, in the New
Testament the old
is laid open.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand
that bother
me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It is a profound source of literary stimulation, both
because of its
majestic prose, and because of its ideas.
Stuart Chase (1888-1985)
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a
Bible-reading
people.
Horace Greeley (1811-1872)
It is not possible ever to exhaust the mind of the
Scriptures. It is a
well that has no bottom.
Saint John Chrysostom (C. 347-407)
Its critics, who claimed it to be filled with forgery,
fiction, and
unfulfilled promises, are finding that the difficulties
lie with
themselves, and not the Bible. Greater and more careful
scholarship
has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by
incorrect
translations rather than divine inconsistencies. It was
man and not
the Bible that needed correcting. It is the blueprint of
the Master
Architect.
Billy Graham (1918- )
Its light is like the body of heaven in its clearness; its
vastness
like the bosom of the sea; its variety like scenes of
nature.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Make it the first morning business of your life to
understand some
part of the Bible clearly, and make it your daily business
to obey it
in all that you do understand.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
My deepest regret, on reaching threescore years and ten,
is that I
have not devoted more time to the study of the Bible.
Still in less
than nineteen years I have gone through the New Testament
in Chinese
fifty-five times.
Jonathan Goforth (1859-1936)
My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am
dull. When I am
really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal
pressure of living
affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and
reveals depths
even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts
the Bible;
the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all
meanings and
glorious truths.
Horace Bushnell (1802-1876)
No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets the
author face
to face.
E. T. Harris
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and
deepens with our
years.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Once you and I are face to face with the Word of God. . .
we can only
accept or reject it. Jesus becomes the two-edged sword
that cuts right
down the middle, dividing us into believers and
nonbelievers.
John Powell
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is this:
that it does
not yield its secrets to the irreverent and censorious.
J. I. Packer (1926- )
One who uses the Bible as his guide never loses his sense
of
direction.
Other books were given for our information, the Bible was
given for
our transformation.
Read the Bible. Free gift inside.
Scripture is far higher and wider than our need.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Sin will keep you from this book. This book will keep you
from sin.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
Some people unfortunately try to reduce the great mystery
to an absurd
kind of magic. They open the Bible at random, stab their
fingers at a
verse, and expect therein to find God's instant answer to
whatever is
troubling them at that moment. The notion that divine
guidance is
dispensed in such a mechanical, penny-in-the-slot manner
is an insult
to God and puts the Bible on a par with a ouija board.
Louis Cassels (1922-1974)
The amazing wealth of the Bible is precisely what makes it
a difficult
book to study.
Paul Tournier (1898-1986)
The Bible contains more of my little philosophy than all
the libraries
I have seen; and such parts of it as I cannot reconcile to
my little
philosophy, I postpone for future investigation.
John Adams (1735-1826)
The Bible deals with terrors and upsets, with. . . all
that the devil
can do, and yet all through there is the uncrushable
certainty that in
the end everything will be all right.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The Bible does not thrill, the Bible nourishes. Give time
to the
reading of the Bible, and the recreating effect is as real
as that of
fresh air physically.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The Bible furnishes the only fitting vehicle to express
the thoughts
that overwhelm us when contemplating the stellar universe.
Ormsby M. Mitchell (1809-1862)
The Bible grows more beautiful as we grow in our
understanding of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and
oppressed.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
The Bible has meant a great deal to me always, not only
for the
spiritual values it asserts, but for many other
reasons-the beauty of
its poetry, the fact that it is the most human book or
collection of
books ever written, containing the story of all human
weaknesses and
strength. I enjoy it also because it contains nearly all
the great
stories that have been written and rewritten many times
and because it
contains the Ten Commandments, which provide the best
formula ever set
down by which people can live together in civilized
justice and
understanding. It is unquestionably the greatest of books
and the
whole compendium of human experience in the real world as
well as in
the spiritual one.
Louis Bromfield (1896-1956)
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight
of the
weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best
and the
noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward.
William
The Bible is. . . the bedrock foundation of all our
literature and,
therefore, if you want to know anything, the Bible is
where you must
go to find it. . . . It is too big for systems, it
comprehends man and
all his thoughts. . . . a great gallery of superb human
portraits.
Thomas Lansing Masson (1866-1934)
The Bible is a letter from God with our personal address
on it.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
The Bible is a living book, an ever-enlarging book.
James C. K. McClure (1848-1932)
The Bible is a page torn out of the great volume of human
life; torn
by the hand of God and annotated by his Spirit.
Joseph Parker (1830-1902)
The Bible is a stream wherein the elephant may swim and
the lamb may
wade.
Pope Gregory the Great (540-604)
The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood
only by
supernatural aid.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
The Bible is a universe of revelation facts which have no
meaning for
us until we are born from above; when we are born again we
see in it
what we never saw before. We are lifted into the realm
where Jesus
lives and we begin to see what he sees.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The Bible is a vein of pure gold, unalloyed by quartz or
any earthly
substance. This is a star without a speck; a sun without a
blot; a
light without darkness; a moon without its paleness; a
glory without a
dimness. O Bible! It cannot be said of any other book that
it is
perfect and pure; but of thee we can declare all wisdom is
gathered up
in thee, without a particle of folly. This is the judge
that ends the
strife, where wit and reason fail. This is the book
untainted by any
error; but is pure, unalloyed, perfect truth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
The Bible is a window in this prison-world through which
we may look
into eternity.
Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs
after me; it
has hands, it lays hold on me.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you
from the
bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbour is,
and how to
reach it without running on rocks and bars.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his
telescope,
then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his
telescope, then he
does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be
looked
through, to see that which is beyond.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
The Bible is meant to be bread for our daily use, not just
cake for
special occasions.
The Bible is my church. It is always open, and there is my
High Priest
ever waiting to receive me. There I have my confessional,
my
thanksgiving, my psalm of praise, a field of promises, and
a
congregation of whom the world is not worthy-prophets and
apostles,
and martyrs and confessors-in short, all I can want, there
I find.
Charlotte Elliot (1789-1871)
The Bible is such excellent medicine.
S. I. McMillen
The Bible is the constitution of Christianity.
Billy Graham (1918- )
The Bible is the most thought-suggesting book in the
world. No other
deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson (1832-1913)
The Bible is the only thing that can combat the devil.
Quote the
Scriptures and the devil will run. . . use the Scriptures
like a sword
and you'll drive temptation away.
Billy Graham (1918- )
The Bible never deals with the domains our human minds
delight to deal
with. The Bible deals with heaven and hell, good and bad,
God and the
devil, right and wrong, salvation and damnation; we like
to deal with
things in-between.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The Bible redirects my will, cleanses my emotions,
enlightens my mind,
and quickens my total being.
The Bible shows how the world progresses. It begins with a
garden, but
ends with a holy city.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
The Bible treats us as human life does-roughly.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The Bible was never intended to be a book for scholars and
specialists
only. From the very beginning it was intended to be
everybody's book,
and that is what it continues to be.
F. F. Bruce (1910-1990)
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more
frequently
attacked than any other book in history. Generations of
intellectuals
have attempted to discredit it; dictators of every age
have outlawed
it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it
into battle
believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments
of it
smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed
ruthless killers
into gentle saints.
Charles Colson (1931- )
The Bible? That's the Book.
The Book indeed,
The Book of books;
On which who looks,
As he should do, aright,
Shall never need
Wish for a better light
To guide him in the night.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but
the one that
makes you think. No other book in the world equals the
Bible for that.
James McCosh (1811-1894)
The devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it.
The empire of Caesar is gone; the legions of
the dust; the avalanches that Napoleon hurled upon
away; the prince of the Pharaohs is fallen; the pyramids
they raised
to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert
sands;
rock for bleaching fisherman's nets;
behind; but the Word of God still survives. All things
that threatened
to extinguish it have only aided it; and it proves every
day how
transient is the noblest monument that men can build, how
enduring is
the least word that God has spoken.
Albert Baird Cummins (1850-1926)
The Good Book-one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever
coined.
Ashley Montagu (1905- )
The gospel is not merely a book-it is a living power-a
book surpassing
all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with
the same
pleasure. The gospel possesses a secret virtue, a
mysterious efficacy,
a warmth which penetrates and soothes the heart. One finds
in
meditating upon it that which one experiences in contemplating
the
heavens. The gospel is not a book; it is a living being,
with an
action, a power, which invades everything that opposes its
extension.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy
I find in
reading God's Word.
Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain
how profound
it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.
Ernest Hello (1828-1885)
The Holy Scriptures tell us what we could never learn any
other way:
they tell us what we are, who we are, how we got here, why
we are here
and what we are required to do while we remain here.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
The incongruity of the Bible with the age of its birth;
its freedom
from earthly mixtures; its original, unborrowed, solitary
greatness;
the suddenness with which it broke forth amidst the
general gloom;
these, to me, are strong indications of its divine
descent; I cannot
reconcile them with a human origin.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in
the longest
life, obtain an entire knowledge of the Bible. The more
deeply he
works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the
ore; new
light continually beams from this source of heavenly
knowledge, to
direct the conduct, and illustrate the work of God and the
ways of
men; and he will at last leave the world confessing, that
the more he
studied the Scriptures, the fuller conviction he had of
his own
ignorance, and of their inestimable value.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
The mystery of the Bible should teach us, at one and the
same time,
our nothingness and our greatness, producing humility and
animating
hope.
Henry
The New Testament holds up a strong light by which a man
can read even
the small print of his soul.
John A. Hutton (1868-1947)
The perfection of human expression was achieved when the
world was
younger: The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, the Book
of Psalms,
the Revelation of
Fannie Hurst (1889-1968)
The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the
means toward
the end, which is knowing God himself.
A. W Tozer (1897-1963)
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the
noblest way of
suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel (1627-1691)
The third chapter of Genesis is undoubtedly the most
important chapter
in the whole Bible. It is the only chapter which, if we
could conceive
it as being withdrawn, would leave all the rest of
Scripture
unintelligible. Take away this chapter and you take away
the key of
knowledge to all the rest of the Bible.
Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886)
There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity
of the
Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would
try the
book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking
evidence for and
against. It was a long, serious, and profound study; and
using the
same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I
always do in
secular matters, I have come to the decision that the
Bible is a
supernatural book, that it has come from God, and that the
only safety
for the human race is to follow its teachings.
Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873)
There's far more truth in the book of Genesis than in the
quantum
theory.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
This little book-it has said everything there is to be
said.
Everything is implied and anticipated in it. Whatever one
should like
to put into words has already been said in it.
Mordecai Obadiah (1810-1882)
To me the memorizing of Scripture has been an unfailing
help in doubt,
anxiety, sorrow, and all the countless vicissitudes and
problems of
life. I believe in it enough to have devoted many, many
hours to
stowing away passages where I can neither leave them
behind me nor be
unable to get at them.
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940)
Trying to absorb the depths of the Bible is like trying to
mop up the
ocean floor with a sponge.
We find the Bible difficult because we try to read it as
we would read
any other book, and it is not the same as any other book.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
What a book! Great and wide as the world, rooted in the
abysmal depths
of creation and rising aloft into the blue mysteries of
heaven.
whole human drama, everything is in this book. It is the
book of
books, Biblia.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms,
where it's
usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
Christopher
Without the present illumination of the Holy Spirit, the
Word of God
must remain a dead letter to every man, no matter how intelligent
or
well-educated he may be. . . . It is just as essential for
the Holy
Spirit to reveal the truth of Scripture to the reader
today as it was
necessary for him to inspire the writers in their day.
William Law (1686-1761)
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible
than by
living in
William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943)
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
John Jay Chapman (1862-1933)
Psalms: a "Little Bible" since it contains, set
out in the briefest
and most beautiful form, all that is to be found in the
whole Bible.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Psalms: the songs of the human soul, timeless and
universal.
Theodore H. Robinson
The book of Psalms contains the whole music of the heart
of man, swept
like a harp by the hand of his Maker; In it are gathered
the lyrical
burst of his tenderness, the moan of his penitence, the
pathos of his
sorrow, the triumph of his victory, the despair of his
defeat, the
firmness of his confidence, the rapture of his assured
hope.
Rowland E. Prothero (1851-1937)
The Psalms are the anatomy of the soul.
John Calvin (1509-1564)
The Psalms: a mirror in which each man sees the motions of
his own
soul.
Rowland E. Prothero (1851-1937)
The Twenty-third Psalm is the nightingale of the psalms.
It is small,
of a homely feather, singing shyly out of obscurity; but
it has filled
the air of the whole world with melodious joy.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Be not too hasty to outbid another.
The penalty for bigamy is two mothers in‑law.
A bigamist is a chap who has had one too many.
A southern maiden married five GI's. She told the judge that
Cupid must have shot her with a shrapnel.
Bigamy is having one wife too many ‑ monogamy is
often the same.
Nothing makes a man faster on his feet than politics,
unless it's bigamy.
Bigamy is the only crime on the books where two rites make
a wrong.
Most men would like to have a wife who's beautiful,
understanding, economical, and a good cook. Unfortunately, the law allows a man
only one wife!
Bigotry is being certain of something you know nothing
about.
The bigot agrees there are two sides to every question ‑
his side and the wrong one.
A bigot is a person who slams his mind in your face.
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the
more light you shine into it, the more it will contract.
A first‑class mistake is to treat anyone as a second‑class
person.
People who brag about having an open mind should close it
occasionally and think.
Some people pay their bills when due, some when overdue,
and some
never do.
After looking at the bill for my operation, I understand
why
doctors wear masks in the operating room.
Happiness is getting a bill you've already paid, so you
can sit
down and write a nasty letter.
Maybe we can keep warm next winter by burning our bills.
Alas! How deeply painful is all payment!
Lord Byron
You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen)
Where breath most breathes--even in the mouths of men.
William Shakespeare
Birds of a feather flock together.
The early bird catches the worm.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Greek proverb
A bird is known by his feathers.
Yiddish proverb
Show me a twin birth and I'll show you an infant replay.
The government is concerned about the population
explosion, and the
population is concerned about the government explosion.
Ruth Rankin
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral
contraception. I
asked this girl to sleep with me and she said no.
Woody Allen
Our beloved country recently celebrated its two‑hundredth
birthday, and all we've learned in that time is how to go fast, work less,
waste more, and die quicker.
The least likely way for a middle‑aged woman to
celebrate her birthday is annually.
George Washington was first in war, first in peace, and
first to have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend.
The design on a woman's birthday cake is often very
beautiful, but the arithmetic is terrible.
Birthdays are nice to have, but too many of them will kill
a person.
When a man has a birthday he may take a day off. When a
woman has a birthday she may take as much as five years off.
Sign in a florist's window: "Smoking, or forgetting
your wife's birthday, can be hazardous to your health."
At the birthday party of a prominent spinster, many of
the guests were overcome by the heat of the candles.
A woman bakes a child's birthday cake big enough to hold
all the candles ‑ and her own small enough not to.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to
forget it once!
A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you
expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?"
Her birthday cake had so many candles on it she was fined
for air pollution.
An irritable person is like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong
way,
tormenting himself with his own prickles.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Animosity cloaked in piety is a demon even if it sits in
church
praising the Creator.
Calvin Miller
By bearing old wrongs you provoke new ones.
Publilius Syrus (First Century B.C.)
If there is the tiniest grudge in your mind against anyone
... your
spiritual penetration into the knowledge of God stops.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody
else, you
destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall (1902-1949)
It is never the big things that disturb us, but the
trivial things.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
It's the little things that annoy us; we can sit on a
mountain but not
on a tack.
Malice has a strong memory.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than resentment.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Resentment becomes a black, furry, growling grudge. Grudge
... starts
with a growl. "Grr..." Like a bear with bad
breath coming out of
hibernation.
Max L. Lucado (1955- )
There is no torment like the inner torment of an
unforgiving spirit.
It refuses to be soothed, it refuses to be healed, it
refuses to
forget.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, bury the
hatchet,
but they leave the handle out for immediate use.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
A person who is to be happy must actively enjoy his
blessings.
All that is required to make men unmindful of what they
owe to God for
any blessing is that they should receive that blessing
often and
regularly.
Richard Whately (1787-1863)
Every misery I miss is a new blessing.
Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
God particularly pours out his blessings upon those who
know how much
they need him.
Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things
you don't
get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus (C. 1466-1536)
It would be a blessing if each human being were striken
blind and deaf
for a few days at some time during his adult life.
Darkness would make
him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him
the joys of
sound.
Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
Never look at what you have lost; look at what you have
left.
Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the
courage to
ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Once it was the blessing, now it is the Lord.
Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919)
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has
many; not
on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils,
light in your
eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path
of God just
before you.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894)
The greatest blessing we ever get from God is to know that
we are
destitute spiritually.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The Lord gives his blessing when he finds the vessel
empty.
Thomas A Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
Unwelcome visitors sometimes bring unexpected blessings.
Be thou the rainbow to the storm of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray!
Lord George Noel Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Bless all who worship thee, from the rising of the sun
unto the going
down of the same. Of thy goodness, give us; with thy love,
inspire us;
by thy spirit, guide us; by thy power, protect us; in thy
mercy,
receive us now and always.
The splendor, the love, and the strength of God be upon
us.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
The pot called the kettle black.
Miguel de Cervantes
He must be pure who would blame another.
Danish proverb
As long as we incorrectly blame outside sources for our
miseries,
it remains impossible to do much about them. However, if
we realize
that we upset ourselves over the things that happen to us,
we can work
at changing. The first step is to ask: Exactly how did I
manage to
upset myself? We then obtain the clues about how to avoid
upsetting
ourselves.
Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall
into the
ditch?
Luke 6:39
Better half blind than have both eyes out.
Folk of times are most blind in their own cause.
None so blind as those who won't see.
When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who
follow.
French proverb
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
-- Erasmus
He that blows in the fire will get sparks in his eyes.
German proverb
A blush is one thing that can't be counterfeited.
When a modern girl blushes she's probably been caught
doing something proper.
Judging from some of the specimens they select, can you
blame brides for blushing?
Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only one that
needs to.
An old‑fashioned girl blushes when she is embarrassed,
but a modern girl is embarrassed when she blushes.
A blush is the color of virtue.
The modern girl has all her blushing done for her by her
parents, brothers, and sweet, hearts.
Empty barrels make the most noise.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his
ignorance.
Great boasters, little doers.
French proverb
Believe a boaster as you would a liar.
Italian proverb
One form of advertising that's a liability instead of an
asset is a person blowing his own horn.
The man who has nothing to boast about but his ancestors
is like a potato ‑ the only good belonging to him is underground.
Those who have a right to boast don't need to.
A boaster and a liar are first cousins.
Folks who boast of being self‑made usually have a
few parts missing.
The only time you should blow your horn is when you're in
the band.
Duty is a task we look forward to with distaste, perform
with reluctance, and brag about afterwards.
He who toots his own horn has everybody dodging him.
To blow your own horn is more hygienic.
Don't brag and blow; it isn't the whistle that pulls the
train.
Some proud folks are always letting off esteem.
The bouquet you hand yourself usually looks like weeds to
the other fellow.
An egotist is like a ship in a fog ‑ always blowing
his horn.
Boasting and sleeping are the forerunners of failure.
Flattery will get you nowhere. This is especially true
when you give it to yourself.
A fool tells you what he will do; a boaster, what he has
done. The wise man does it and says nothing.
The Lord loves a cheerful giver ‑ until he brags
about it.
The trouble with people who have broken a habit is that
they usually have the pieces mounted and framed.
You can't judge an automobile by the sound of its horn ‑
nor a man!
A modest person hardly ever blows his "knows" in
public.
There are a few people among us who are like boats ‑
they toot the loudest when in a fog.
People should not forget the mama whale's advice to the
baby whale, "Remember, it's only when you spout that you get harpooned."
Politics is the only profession in which a man can make a
living solely by bragging.
The less power a man has, the more he brags of what he'd
do if he had it.
The man who sings his own praises may have the right tune
but the wrong words.
Did you ever suspect that folks who repent loud and long
are really just bragging?
When selling yourself don't misrepresent the goods.
The trouble with blowing one's horn is that it seldom
leaves any wind for climbing.
When we hear a man boasting about how much liquor he can
hold, we get a mental picture of an animated garbage can.
A lot of people who boast they never go back on their word
don't mind going around it a little.
The man who never boasts is always bragging about it.
Before you start tooting your own horn, be sure there's
plenty of juice in your battery.
He who boasts of being self‑made relieves the Lord
of a lot of responsibility.
The hen that laid the biggest egg usually does the least
cackling about it.
Most men brag about their hunting experiences, though
they're chiefly confined to shooting pool, craps, and bull.
Some people would rather blow their own horn than listen
to the Marine Band.
The fellow who boasts of his open mind may only have a
vacant one.
The person who boasts of having no religious prejudice
quite often has no religion.
A businessman boasts that he and his wife started out with
absolutely nothing, "And we've got most of it left."
The man who boasts only of his roots is conceding that he
belongs to a family that's better dead than alive.
A
It's difficult to figure out who does more bragging ‑
those who have lost weight or those who have quit smoking.
For every person who brags about being bright, there are a
dozen ready to polish him off.
People who brag about having an open mind should close it
occasionally and think.
The fellow who brags about how smart he is wouldn't if he
was.
When a man brags that he wears the pants at home, the
chances are his wife tells him which pants to put on.
Anybody who brags about what he's going to do tomorrow
probably did the same thing yesterday.
The fellow who blows his horn the loudest is usually in
the biggest fog.
People who brag about taking a middle of‑the‑road
position tend to forget they're setting themselves up for being hit from both
directions.
Self‑praise can be put in the same class as anything
else you get for nothing.
Praising yourself to the sky is not going to get you
there.
When a man sings his own praise, he usually pitches the
tune too high.
Self‑praise is the only way some folks get any.
Few people need voice lessons to sing their own praise.
The man who sings his own praise invariably sings an
unaccompanied solo.
Success doesn't always go to the head; sometimes it goes
to the mouth.
A person interrupts and endangers his climb up the ladder
of success when he stops to pat himself on the back.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of
it.
It takes most men about two years to completely quit
smoking cigarettes and twice as long to quit bragging about it.
The husband who boasts that he never made a mistake has a
wife who did.
There are very few who boast of having been born in a log
cabin who still live in them.
The fellow who boasts of running things at his home most
likely means the lawn mower, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, and errands.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher
Body: not a home but an inn-and that only briefly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
Once you are over fifty and you wake up in the morning
without some pain – you are dead.
God always locates his spiritual revelations in a physical
body. The
great God became Incarnate in flesh and blood; the great
thoughts of
God became crystallized in words.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
O God, may we so value our bodies and minds that we never
mar them.
May we not be tricked into bad habits by publicity and
advertisements
that deliberately mislead, or by the desire for easy
applause, or by
the fear of being thought narrow. But may we be sturdy and
upright in
our thinking and our behavior, and treat our bodies as the
temple of
thy Spirit.
Sid G. Hodges
Our body is the most gracious gift God has given us, and
that if we
hand over the mainspring of our life to God we can work
out in our
bodily life all that he works in. It is through our bodily
lives that
Satan works and, thank God, it is through our bodily lives
that God's
Spirit works. God gives us his grace and his Spirit; he
puts right all
that was wrong, he does not suppress it nor counteract it,
but
readjusts the whole thing; then begins our work.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Our body is to be the temple of the Holy Ghost, the medium
for
manifesting the marvelous disposition of Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Thank God we are not going to be angels, we are going to
be something
tenfold better. By the redemption of Jesus Christ there is
a time
coming when our bodies will be in the image of God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The Bible, instead of ignoring the fact that we have a
body, exalts it.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The body is matter, but it is God's creation. . . when it
is neglected
or scoffed at, God himself is insulted.
Michel Quoist (1921- )
The body: a marvelous machine. . . a chemical laboratory,
a
powerhouse. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full
of secrets
and marvels.
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)
The brain and the body are pure mechanisms, there is nothing
spiritual
about them; they are the machines we use to express our
personality.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is
shocked by the
unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be
impatient, craves
the novel, and is bored by repetition.
W H. Auden (1907-1973)
The ears and eyes are the doors and windows of the soul.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
The human body is probably the most amazing example of
teamwork
anywhere. Every part needs the other. When the stomach is
hungry, the
eyes spot the hamburger. The nose smells the onions, the
feet run to
the snack stand, the hands douse the burger with mustard
and shove it
back into the mouth, where it goes down to the stomach.
Now that's
cooperation!
Joni Eareckson Tada
We have a bodily machine which we must regulate. God does
not regulate
it for us. Until we learn to bring the bodily machine into
harmony
with God's will, there will be friction, and the friction is
a warning
that part of the machine is not in working order.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41
Alas, after a certain age, every man is responsible for
his own
face.
Albert Camus
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
We have to treat the body as the servant of Jesus Christ:
when the
body says, "Sit," and he says, "Go,"
go! When the body says, "Eat,"
and he says, "Fast," fast! When the body says,
"Yawn," and he says,
"Pray," pray!
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
In difficult situations the boldest plans are safest.
Titus Livy
Audacity augments courage.
Publilius Syrus
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly
balanced
courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.
W. J. Slim
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
A good book is not one that we read, but one that reads
us.
W H. Auden (1907-1973)
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been; it is
lying as in
magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
The book How to Beat Inflation has just gone from $1.75 to
$2.95.
Nowadays it seems that more books are read in Laundromats than
in libraries.
There are a lot of books telling you how to manage when
you retire. What most people want is one that'll tell them how to manage in
the meantime.
How‑to‑get‑rich books are now filed
under FICTION.
The one book that always has a sad ending is a checkbook.
Sign in a
The trouble with speed reading is that by the time you
realize a book is boring, you've finished reading it.
Some of our new books are so down‑to‑earth
they should be plowed under.
In a library the books that aren't dirty are the ones that
are dusty.
A poor appetite for good books eventually leads to
intellectual malnutrition.
Children don't read to find their identity, to free
themselves from
guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of
alienation.
They have no use for psychology. They detest sociology.
They still
believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches,
goblins, logic,
clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. . . .
When a book
is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their
writer to redeem
humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
Never lend books-nobody ever returns them; the only books
I have in my
library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is
that of a good
book.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure
so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and
take for
granted, nor to find talk and discourse-but to weigh and
consider.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The Bible is not only the world's best seller, it is man's
best purchase.
So many books are now being written on how to speak that
there ought to be a market for one on how to shut up.
We've truly become a nation of book lovers provided
they're filled with trading stamps.
Some books you can't put down, and others you dare not put
down when there are children in the house.
A reference book is one in which we can quickly find what
it doesn't contain.
If you enjoy reading a spicy book, read a Mexican
cookbook.
The only book that really tells you where you can go on
your vacation is your checkbook.
There might be more good books if there were more good
people to read them.
A classic is a book which people praise highly but never
read.
Some books are not to be lightly thrown aside; they should
be thrown with great force.
A country hick sent the following request to a public
library: "Please send me the name of a good book on personal hygiene. I'm
afraid I have it."
A rare volume is a borrowed book that comes back.
We should be as careful of the books we read as we are of
the company we keep.
A good test of the worth of a book is the number of times
you can read it with profit.
There is one good thing you can say for a book. It does
not interrupt at the most interesting part for a word from the sponsor.
A book is a success when people who haven't read it
pretend they have.
It is a good book when it is opened with expectation, and
closed with delight and profit.
Now there's a book on the market for people who disagree ‑
a CONTRADICTIONARY.
For many books the backs and covers are by far the best
parts.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems
to me to
be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan Swift
A drop of ink may make a million think.
Lord Byron
There are more books upon books than upon any other
subject.
Michel de Montaigne
A good book contains more real wealth than a good bank.
Roy L. Smith
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they
are the
most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most
patient of
teachers.
Charles W. Eliot
Every great book is an action, and every great action is a
book.
Martin Luther
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and
closed
with profit.
A. Bronson Alcott
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
Benjamin Disraeli
Books are ships which pass through the vast seas of time.
Francis Bacon
Judge not a book by its cover.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a
weariness
of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes 12:12
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the
troubles
of life.
Victor Hugo
Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are
the most
choice companions we have here.
William Mather
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of
books is
the richest and happiest of the children of men.
John Alfred Langford
Some good book is usually responsible for the success of
every
really great man.
Roy L. Smith
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing
its own
thinking.
Christopher Morley
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just
as if I
had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused
before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith
While you converse with lords and dukes, I have their
betters
here--my books.
Thomas Sheridan
You are the same today as you will be five years from now
except
for two things . . . the people you meet and the books you
read.
Charles E. Jones
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than
a
book!--a message to us from the dead--from human souls
whom we never
saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away; and yet
these, in
those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us,
terrify us, teach
us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers . . .
I say we
ought to reverence books, to look at them as useful and
mighty things.
If they are good and true, whether they are about religion
or
politics, farming, trade, or medicine, they are the
message of Christ,
the maker of all things, the teacher of all truth.
Charles Kingsley
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it
down, I was
convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the
end of a
long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
Do give books--religious or otherwise--for Christmas.
They're never
fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
Book lovers never go to bed alone.
Anonymous
I read part of it all the way through.
Sam Goldwyn
A good book has no ending.
R. D. Cumming
No furniture is so charming as books.
Sydney Smith
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows--and I
needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Raymond Chandler
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and
some few
to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese proverb
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit
inheritance
of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the
reading of
a book.
Confession is not only good for the soul; in
Some folks commit a crime and go to jail; others commit a
crime, write a book, and get rich.
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all
they read and return it nearly in the same state, only a
little
dirtied. 2.
Sandglasses, who retain nothing and are content to get
through a book for the sake of getting through the
time. 3.
Stainbags, who retain merely the dregs of what they
read. 4. Mogul
diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what
they read, and
enable others to profit by it, also.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
dulled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this
selfish, serene,
lifelong intoxication.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and
some few to
be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over
the man who
cannot read at all.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with
the finest
men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
The things you read will fashion you by slowly
conditioning your mind.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Generally, women don't like the dictionary, because it has
the first and the last word.
There's no sense in reading a dictionary; if you've read
one, you've read them all.
All that some people lose when they buy a book on dieting
is the price of the book.
An economist in
words, "Here it is and there it goes."
When an egotist doesn't understand something in a book,
he decides it must be a misprint.
Many a man thinks he has become famous when he merely
happened to meet an editor who was hard‑up for material.
To the average girl the most helpful books are mother's
cookbook and father's checkbook.
In today's novels the boy always gets the girl ‑ at
least once in every chapter.
Today's novels contain a lot of details that were once
told exclusively to the family doctor.
A lot of modern novels have one common failing ‑
their covers are too far apart.
The one book that really tells you where you can go on
your vacation is your pocketbook.
To read without reflecting is like eating without
digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
All morning I worked on the proof of one of my poems, and
I took out a
comma; in the afternoon I put it back.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
All who have been concerned in the day-by-day reporting of
the game's
progress-I mean the collection, presentation, and
dissemination of
what is called news-know better than anyone how slight,
fragile, and
fraudulent are the available sources. The bucket dropped
into the well
of truth is leaky indeed, and such water as it brings up,
brackish and
polluted.
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
Chaucer had talent, but he couldn't spell.
Artemus Ward (1727-1800)
God is not interested only in Christian writers as such.
He is
concerned with all kinds of writing. In the same way a
sacred calling
is not limited to ecclesiastical functions. The man who is
weeding a
field of turnips is also serving God.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
If my stories are incomprehensible to Jews or Muslims or
Taoists, then
I have failed as a Christian writer. We do not draw people
to Christ
by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them
how wrong
they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light
that is so
lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the
source of it.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918- )
In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach
himself.
Alfred Kazin (1915- )
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say
in a whole
book.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Less is more.
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is
preached in the
pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
Logic teaches that if an educated person knows how to use
colons in
writing, a semi-educated person must know how to use
semicolons.
The making of indexes is what gives editors that haggard
and querulous
look.
Saxe Commins
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using
two words when
one will do.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The writer is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy
Graham, of
course, but of the same stuff.
Shirley Ann Grau (1929- )
There is a type of writing that causes people to commit
crime-and
that's the type of writing that's done every day in the
newspapers.
One story about a hijacker breeds a thousand. It's
sensationalism.
It's more the exposure than the quality of writing. People
know a work
of fiction is make-believe. People don't commit murders
after reading
Agatha Christie. People do commit murder after reading
about murder in
the paper. Similar murders.
William Seward Burroughs (1914- )
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to
upset
grownups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story
which will
be marketed for children, because children understand what
their
parents have rejected and forgotten.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918- )
Writing a book or a manifesto is the nearest a man gets to
having a
baby.
John R. W. Stott (1921- )
Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers,
having had
their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
Jessamyn West (1907- )
A bore only stops talking to see if you're still
listening.
There are two kinds of bores ‑ those who talk too
much and those who listen too little.
A bore is as hard to get rid of as a summer cold.
A yawn is nature's way of giving the person listening to a
bore an
opportunity to open his mouth.
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without
providing you
with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
He has returned from
architecture, painting, statuary and music.
Sydney Smith
We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive
those whom we
bore.
La Rochefoucauld
A healthy male adult bore consumes, each year, one and a
half times
his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike
Someone described a bore: "He reminds me of a
toothache I once had."
A bore keeps you from feeling lonely and makes you wish
you were.
One nice thing about bores is that they don't talk about
other people.
A bore always lights up the room when he leaves.
Have you noticed that a bore doesn't stop talking when
you've stopped listening?
A bore never runs out of talk ‑ only out of
listeners.
It isn't so much what we say as the number of times we say
it that makes us a bore.
A bore is someone who boasts about his accomplishments
when he should be boasting about yours!
It's easy to keep from being a bore. Just praise the
person to whom you're talking.
A bore is like a TV commercial ‑ often loud and
dull.
Have you noticed that a bore always takes his time taking
your time?
A bore is a guy with a cocktail glass in one hand, and
your lapel in the other.
A bore is someone who holds a conversation and won't let
go.
There is only one thing worse than a bore and that's a
bore with bad breath.
A big shot may also be a big bore.
One of the troubles with small talk is that it usually
comes in large doses.
Some folks are so highly educated they can bore you on any
subject.
Usually the man who howls loudest about free speech has
nothing worth saying.
Too many people confuse free speech with loose talk.
Talking about others and being a gossip is probably better
than talking about yourself and being a bore.
One of the best ways for some people to make others happy
is to shut up and go home.
A man without a single idea is less of a bore than a man
with only one idea.
Some people never let ideas interrupt the easy flow of
their conversation.
When an idler sees a job completed, he's sure he could
have done it better.
A person who never makes a mistake is pretty boring. .
A speaker who doesn't strike oil in twenty‑five
minutes should stop boring.
Might as well keep your mouth shut. If you talk about
yourself you're a bore, and if you talk about others you're a gossip.
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in
a week.
Many public speakers can talk for hours without any notes ‑
or knowledge!
Boredom is . . . a vital consideration for the moralist,
since at
least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of
it.
Bertrand Russell
Man is so unhappy that he would be bored even if he had no
cause
for boredom, by the very nature of his temperament, and he
is so vain
that, though he has a thousand and one basic reasons for
being bored,
the slightest thing, like pushing a ball with a billiard
cue, will be
enough to divert him.
Blaise Pascal
An acquaintance is a person whom we know well enough to borrow
from, but not well enough to lend to.
Bank interest on a loan is so high that if you can afford
to pay it you don't need the loan.
A bank is a financial institution where you can borrow
money if you can present sufficient evidence to show that you don't need it.
The borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
Borrowing is not much better than begging.
German proverb
Borrowing is the mother of trouble.
Hebrew proverb
He who does not have to borrow lives without cares.
Yiddish proverb
A rare volume is a borrowed book that comes back.
If you have to borrow, always borrow from a pessimist. He
doesn't expect to be paid anyway.
Anybody who thinks all forms of larceny are illegal
doesn't understand borrowing.
When a man borrows money from a bank he pays interest, but
when he borrows from a friend he often loses interest.
The trouble with a chronic borrower is that he always
keeps everything but his word.
It is a fraud to borrow when you know that you will be
unable to repay.
A borrower is a person who exchanges hot air for cold
cash.
The slogan of the borrowing nations today is, "See
America First."
If it's as easy to borrow money from a bank as the advertisements
claim, why should anybody want to rob it?
If you listen to the loan company commercials, you'll
almost believe you can borrow yourself out of debt.
It's easier to love your enemies if you remember that they
never try to borrow from you.
Warm friends often freeze up at the mention of cash.
Friends last longer the less they are used.
You can usually tell how close your closest friend is if
you ask him for a loan.
A friend in need is a drain on the pocketbook.
A lifelong friend is. someone you haven't borrowed money
from yet.
The quickest way to wipe out a friendship is to sponge on
it.
Many people seem to think a home is only good to borrow
money on.
It takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home, but
before that, it takes a lot o' borrowin'.
We should always strive to live within our incomes, even
if we have to borrow money to do so.
If life is ever found on the planet Mars, they're certain
to ask us for a loan.
It's strange how much better our memory becomes as soon as
a friend borrows money from us.
Every time you lend money to a friend you damage his
memory.
The reason it is called "cold cash" is because
of the way the temperature drops when you try to borrow some.
If you want to know the value of money, try and borrow it.
B A neighbor likes to borrow your
equipment and loan you his troubles.
When the new neighbors move in, it's only friendly to keep
a close check on what they have that's worth borrowing.
The man who borrows trouble is always in debt.
A good neighbor is one who, when he wants to borrow your
corkscrew, asks you to bring it over.
Sympathy is what you give to a man when you don't want to
lend him money.
The reward for saving your money is being able to pay your
taxes without borrowing.
Nothing makes time pass faster than vacations and short‑term
loans.
Time may be money, but it's much easier to persuade a man
to give you his time than to lend you his money.
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you
need more.
It's easy to borrow money from the government. All you
have to do is pretend you're a foreign power.
A good neighbor is one who doesn't expect you to return
the things you borrow.
A cooperative neighbor is one who advises you on what to
buy, so he can borrow it later.
Borrowing neighbors will take anything but a hint.
Lots of people think a house is only good to borrow money
on.
A boy becomes a man when he stops asking his father for an
allowance and requests a loan.
Some people feel that a cigarette is not harmful if they
borrow it from somebody else.
The cancer scare has increased the use of borrowed
cigarettes.
Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no
daughter.
Before you have an argument with your boss, you'd better
take a good look at both sides ‑his side and the outside.
Before arguing with your boss, make absolutely sure
you're right ‑ then let the matter drop.
The only time it's safe to tell the boss where to get off
is when he falls asleep on the bus.
Watch the man who says he's the boss at home. He may lie
about other things too.
The hardest job in the world is telling the boss the
computer proved him wrong.
A certain boss when asked how many people work for him
replied, "About half of them."
Pity the boss. He has to come in early to see who comes in
late.
In any office you can tell who the boss is: he's the one
watching the clock during the coffee break.
Nothing makes a man the boss of his house like living
alone.
An overbearing boss seldom fires you ‑ he just makes
you wish he had.
Some bosses are so mean that if they pay you a compliment
they expect to get a receipt.
The wife isn't always boss in the American home. Sometimes
it's her mother.
If your boss doesn't pay you what you deserve, be
thankful!
Some bosses take great pains ‑ and give them to
others.
Be loyal to your boss because the next one might be worse.
The worst boss anyone can have is a bad habit.
A certain boss said to his secretary, "Congratulations!
This is the earliest you've been late in a long time."
Computers will never replace man entirely until they learn
to laugh at the boss's jokes.
A man's best boss is a well‑trained conscience.
Being diplomatic is telling your boss he has an open mind
instead of telling him he has a hole in the head.
Nothing is quite as embarrassing as watching your boss do
something you assured him couldn't be done.
The fellow who is fired with enthusiasm for his work is
seldom fired by his boss.
Enthusiasm for hard work is most sincerely expressed by
the person who is paying for it.
You may know more than your employer, but his knowledge
pays off.
The man who laughs at his boss's jokes doesn't
necessarily have a sense of humor, but he surely has a sense of direction.
It is generally understood that leisure time is what you
have when the boss is on vacation.
The best time to start thinking about retirement is
before your boss does.
He who laughs last at the boss's jokes probably isn't
very far from retirement.
Ulcers are contagious. You can get them from your boss.
Vacations are easy to plan ‑ the boss tells you
when, and the wife tells you where.
The reason a great many men don't bring their boss home
for dinner is because she is already there.
If you do all the work and somebody else gets the credit ‑
he's probably your boss.
A few people are enthusiastic about work, but most of the
time they're the bosses.
About the only folks who work like a horse these days have
a boss riding them.
One way to boost production in this country would be to
put the labor bosses to work.
Hard work and devotion to duty will surely get you a
promotion ‑ unless, of course, the boss has a relative who wants the job.
The fellow who can beat his boss at golf is usually
prudent enough not to.
The man is still boss in the American home ‑ as long
as he allows his wife to make all the decisions.
A husband often thinks he bosses the house ‑ but
actually he only houses the boss.
A husband wanted to show his wife who was boss so he
bought her a mirror.
Imagination is what makes the average man think he can run
the business better than his boss.
Nothing improves a joke more than telling it to your
employees.
The fellow who knows more than his boss should be careful
to conceal it.
Draw not your bow until your arrow is fixed.
Interest your children in bowling--get them off the
streets, into
the alleys.
The ambition of every small boy is to wash his mother's
ears.
Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the
dog can
be fed regularly.
A boy becomes a man when he wears out the seat of his
pants instead
of the soles of his shoes.
Remember the good old days when a juvenile delinquent was
a boy who
played the saxophone too loud?
Boys will be men one day.
One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are
no boy at all.
Anonymous
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do
not die in
sport, but in earnest.
Greek proverb
When a boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
German proverb
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard
Many have said that boys will be boys, but they don't have
to be the James boys.
Nothing changes a small boy's appearance as much as soap.
A boy loves a dog because it's the only thing around the
house that doesn't find fault with him.
Many a boy is the kind of kid his mother tells him not to
play with.
A small boy is a pain in the neck when he's around and a
pain in the heart when he's not.
It's easy to believe that any American boy can become
president when you observe some of them who have.
One way to keep young boys from getting on the wrong track
is to use better switching facilities.
The thing a little boy outgrows fastest is his allowance.
What a small boy saves for a rainy day is apt to be
mischief.
A boy is like a canoe ‑ he behaves better if paddled
from the rear.
If anything is as dirty as a small boy, it's probably his
bath towel.
Nothing makes a boy smarter than being a grandson.
More boys would follow in their father's footsteps if
they weren't afraid of being caught.
Many boys are flunking geometry. They just don't know the
angles.
A boy becomes a man when he stops asking his father for an
allowance and requests a loan.
Give a boy a rope and he'll tie a stray dog to it.
Any parent will tell you there are two kinds of boys ‑
noisy and not yet.
A small boy's lament: "While there's life, there's
soap."
The boy who takes a bath willingly is probably bathing
his dog.
Waiting to be whipped is the most uninteresting period in
any boy's life.
Boys are often a problem. Some are so slow you want to
scream; others are so fast you have to.
A boy is the only thing God can use to make a man.
Anybody who thinks there is no such thing as a bad boy
either doesn't understand boys or doesn't know exactly what bad is.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural
death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help."
A boy handed his report card to his parents and said,
"Look this over and see if I can sue for defamation of character."
Small boys are washable, but a lot of them shrink from it.
The time to start worrying about a boy is when he leaves
the house without slamming the door.
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is
growing up to be a man.
Having your boy follow in your footsteps can be very
disconcerting, especially when you think you've covered your tracks ‑ but
aren't
absolutely certain.
Do you know what happens to little boys who continually
interrupt? They grow up and make a fortune doing TV commercials.
While there may be no such thing as a bad boy, there are
some who could be with a little encouragement.
A boy becomes a man when he decides it's more fun to steal
a kiss than second base.
To keep a small boy out of the cookie jar, lock it and hide
the key under a cake of soap.
For every boy with a spark of genius, there are a dozen
others with ignition trouble.
About the only time a boy manages to stay off the lawn is
when you want him to mow it.
It used to be when a boy couldn't learn at his mother's
knee he found himself over his father's.
When a boy begins to "feel his oats," he should
strongly resist the urge to sow a few wild ones.
When a small boy doesn't mind soap, he's probably blowing
bubbles.
The footsteps a boy follows are apt to be those his father
thought he'd covered up.
A boy is a magical creature. You can lock him out of your
workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
A small boy said to his best friend, "It may be
unconstitutional, but I always pray before an exam."
Of course there's no such thing as a bad boy. But an awful
lot of them haven't given up trying.
College is the only vacation a boy gets between his
mother and his wife.
There is no such thing as a problem boy. He's just a boy
with a problem.
Every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base
than an automobile.
A boy's mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the
minute he gets up, and never stops until he gets to school.
A small boy prayed, "Lord, if you can't make me a
better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a good time as it is."
Little boys who don't always tell the truth will probably
grow up and become weather forecasters.
Some boys seem to have dentists confused with barbers ‑
they see both twice a year.
To a young boy there is no such period as "between
meals."
When a small boy puts something down in black and white
it's apt to be a towel.
Boys will be boys, particularly when they're away from
their wives.
One of the hardest things for most of us to put up with is
a
braggart who makes good.
Age stiffens the joints and thickens some brains.
There's no tax on brains; the take would be too small.
The brain is as strong as its weakest think.
He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.
The only successful substitute for a lack of brains is
silence.
Be sure your brain is engaged before putting your mouth in
gear.
The human brain is like a freight car ‑ guaranteed to
have a certain capacity but often running empty.
If there is a substitute for brains it has to be silence.
Use your brain. It's the little things that count.
The marble business must be booming ‑many people
seem to have lost theirs.
Brains and beauty are nature's gifts; character is your
own achievement.
Keeping clean between the ears may be more important than
keeping clean behind the ears.
A cheap but top‑rate computer is the one between
your ears.
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature
fills it with conceit.
If a person has no education he is forced to use his
brains.
As the chest swells, the brain and the heart shrink.
Fishing stimulates the brain ‑ also the imagination!
There are relatively few cases of mental indigestion. The
brain is seldom overworked like the stomach.
There are more idle brains than idle hands.
Your brain becomes a mind when it's fortified with
knowledge.
Some people have open minds; others just don't have
anything between their ears.
Some people have more money than brains ‑but not for
long.
Nature often makes up for a nugget‑size brain with a
bucket‑size mouth.
God gave eloquence to some, brains to others.
Sometimes a handful of patience is worth more than a
bucket full of brains.
Profanity is an evidence of the lack of a sufficient
vocabulary ‑ and brains.
There is no real substitute for brains, but silence does
pretty well.
The mouths of many people seem to have the habit of going
on active duty while their brains are on furlough.
Big mouths do not advertise big brains.
The human tongue is only a few inches from the brain, but
when you listen to some people talk, they seem miles apart.
When you're up to your ears in trouble, try using the part
that isn't submerged.
It's unfortunate that rusty brains do not squeak.
Always remember that a man is not rewarded for having
brains, but for using them.
Brains are what a man looks for in a wife, after not using
any in selecting one.
The human brain is the apparatus with which we think we
think.
Will our brains start shrinking now that machines do our
thinking?
Nowadays most brains are suffering from chronic
unemployment.
Most folks would benefit themselves and others if they
would synchronize their tongues with their brains.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of
ourselves
and how little we think of others.
Orson Welles
Brevity is the soul of wit.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as
with
sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they
burn.
Robert Southey
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters
in.
The father of the bride should realize he isn't losing a
daughter
but gaining a bathroom.
It's not a sin to play bridge, but it's a crime the way
some people
play it.
Bridge is a friendly game invented by two married couples
who
disliked each other.
One way to get a real kick out of bridge is to sit
opposite your
wife.
Before you drink at a brook, it is well to know its
source.
A jeweled pivot on which our lives must turn is the deep
realization
that every person we meet in the course of a day is a
dignified,
essential human soul and that we are being guilty of gross
inhumanity
when we snub or abuse him.
Joshua Loth Liebman (1907-1948)
Brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but a divine
command.
Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
Brotherhood: helping yourself by helping others.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
Brotherhood: to live, think, and suffer with the men of
your time, as
one of them.
Henri de Lubac (1896- )
Help your brother's boat across, and lo, your own has
reached the
shore.
However wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a
member of our
common species.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
Human blood is all one color.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native
land.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
If all good people were clever,
And all clever people were good,
The world would be nicer than ever
We thought that it possibly could.
But somehow, 'tis seldom or never
The two hit it off as they should;
The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good.
Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932)
If any little love of mine may make a life the sweeter,
If any little care of mine may make a friend's the
fleeter,
If any little lift may ease the burden of another,
God give me love and care and strength to help my toiling
brother.
In Christ there is no east or west,
In him no south or north,
But one great fellowship of love
Throughout the whole wide earth.
John Oxenham (1861-1941)
It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are
all
brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we
are all
cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites,
poltroons.
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality
and teaches
universal love, without distinction of race, merit, or
rank. A man's
neighbor is everyone that needs help.
John Cunningham Geikie (1826-1906)
Keep Jesus Christ in your hearts and you will recognize
his face in
every human being. You will want to help him out in all
his needs: the
needs of your brothers and sisters.
Pope John Paul II (1920- )
Oh, east is east and west is west, and never the twain
shall meet,
Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment
seat.
But there is neither east nor west, border, nor breed, nor
birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come
from the
ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
The Christian life was not meant to live in a solitude
forever, nor is
it suited to it. It is a social life. All its movements
suggest and
prophesy a brotherhood. That brotherhood of believers is
the Christian
church.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
The same heart beats in every human breast.
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his
shoulders the lame
man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
There is a destiny that makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back into our own.
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of
God.
Henry Martyn Field (1822-1907)
To know that all men are brothers is not only to know that
all men are
alike, but to know that all men are different.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we
do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish
together as
fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
What is brotherhood? Brotherhood is giving to others the
rights you
want to keep for yourself. . . giving to the individual in
another
group the same dignity, the same full appreciation that
you want to
have yourself.
Without faith in the fatherhood of God, people have a
pretty hard time
being brotherly. They drift off into hate societies, or
more often,
into the society of the indifferent.
Edwin T. Dahlberg (1892-1986)
Yes, you'd know him for a heathen
If you judged him by the hide,
But bless you, he's my brother,
For he's just like me inside.
Robert Freeman (1878-1940)
There's nothing tighter than next year's budget and this
year's bikini.
It's a cinch to balance your budget, if you can earn as
much as you yearn.
A budget enables you to spend money without enjoying it.
Balancing the budget is when money in the bank and the
days of the month come out together.
The trouble with a budget is that it won't budge.
A budget is a system of reminding yourself that you can't
afford
the kind of living you've grown accustomed to.
A budget is a formula for determining that you need a
raise.
A budget is a sort of conscience which doesn't keep you
from
spending, but makes you feel guilty about it.
The bureaucrats in
balance the budget--they're going to tilt the country.
Budgeting: A method of worrying before you spend instead
of
afterward.
Anonymous
Nowadays if the family budget balances you can be sure of
one thing ‑ you've made a mistake in your figures.
A budget is an orderly way of discovering that you can't
live on what you're earning.
Balance your budget ‑ rotate your creditors!
Most people look on budgeting as a nervous breakdown on
paper.
A family budget is a device to make you worry about money
before you spend it.
A married couple usually works out a budget together and
then breaks it separately.
Budgeting doesn't take the whipped cream out of life. It
simply means that you can have only the whipped cream you can afford.
No wife objects to being put on a budget as long as she
isn't expected to stay within it.
A budget is like a girdle ‑ not enough room for
everything.
Nothing helps to stabilize the family budget like an
economy drive by the closest neighbors.
A budget is what you stay within if you go without.
Budgeting is the most orderly way of going into debt.
Living on a budget is the same as living beyond your means
except that you have a record of it.
A budget is an aim that rarely shows good marksmanship.
The family budget tells us what we can't afford, but it
doesn't keep us from buying it.
A budget is like a conscience ‑ it doesn't keep you
from spending, but it makes you feel guilty about it.
A budget is like a girdle ‑ you take care of the
bulge in one place and it pops up in another.
A budget is a plan by which you worry about expenditures
before you make them ‑ instead of afterwards.
A balanced budget is when the month and the money run out
together.
Keeping a budget is an orderly way of getting through part
of the month.
About all you can do is dream of a white Christmas, for it
seems like it always leaves most of us in the red.
It seems that every time Congress sets out to trim the
budget, the knife slips and trims the taxpayers instead.
With food, rent, and gas prices so high, when you balance
the budget there's nothing left to budget the balance.
We could get along better with fewer economists and more
economizers.
You can enjoy a glorious vacation and stay within your
budget ‑ but not both in the same summer.
The old‑fashioned wife is one who can stay on a
budget and a diet.
If it weren't for keeping a budget, a lot of people
wouldn't know how much they owe.
The tax collectors take up so much of your earnings to
balance the budget that you just can't budget the balance.
A budget helps you pay as you go if you don't go anywhere.
Many people say a budget is a form of fiction that seldom
turns out right in the end.
A budget is an attempt to live below your yearnings.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head
stone of
the corner.
Psalm 118:22
To build is to be robbed.
A bully is always a coward.
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
A burden shared is a lighter load.
God gives the shoulder according to the burden.
German Proverb
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise
and very
beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come
unto me all ye
that labour and are heavy laden."
Life has burdens that no one can escape. Christianity does
not remove
the load: it teaches us how to bear the burdens that fall
rightfully
to us.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life.
Unhappiest are those
who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Most churches have little emphasis on bearing one
another's burdens.
Indeed, the people do not know one another's burdens even
exist, let
alone be concerned enough to bear them.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.
When God allows a burden to be put upon you, He will put
His arms underneath you to help you carry it.
You will find that if you share your brother's burden,
both of you will walk a little straighter.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you
carry it.
The heaviest burdens in life are the things that might
happen but don't.
A burden must be carried before we can put it down.
Let us pray, not for lighter burdens, but for stronger
backs.
There will always be enough for today without taking on
yesterday and tomorrow's burdens.
The burdens that appear easiest to carry are those borne
by others.
Bearing one another's burdens is very different from
bearing down on them.
It's better to complain occasionally and carry your own
burdens than cheerfully push them off on someone else.
Few burdens are heavy when everybody lifts.
Some people carry their religion like a burden on their
backs, when they should carry it like a song in their hearts.
Religion at its best is a lift and not a load.
Secrets are a burden. That's the reason we are so anxious
to have somebody help us carry them.
No burden is too heavy when it is carried with love.
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when
tomorrow's
burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is
more than a
man can bear. Never load yourself so. If you find yourself
so loaded,
at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's.
He begs you
to leave the future to him, and mind the present.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to
take his
burden from him, but to call out his best strength that he
may be able
to bear the burden.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
We must distinguish between the burden-bearing that is
right and the
burden-bearing that is wrong. We ought never to bear the
burden of sin
or doubt, but there are burdens placed on us by God which
he does not
intend to lift off. He wants us to roll them back on him.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
How did people ever get along before they had all those
government bureaus to tell them what to do?
A sure sign of bureaucracy is when the first person who answers
the phone can't help you.
Bureaucracy is based on a willingness to either pass the
buck or spend it.
Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of
us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.
Business needs more orders from customers and fewer from
the government.
Organized crime can very easily be stopped. All we have to
do is form a government agency to run it ‑ then stand back and watch it
choke itself to death on red tape.
The longer the title, the less important the job.
George McGovern
What's needed in government is more horse sense and less
nonsense.
One solution to the energy problem is to bale up all the
government red tape and use it for fuel.
A promise cannot be made more binding by using a lot of
red tape.
Scientists have found a petrified man sitting with his
feet elevated. He was probably a primitive bureaucrat.
A scientist recently revealed that it took millions of
years to carve out the
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and
make seven copies of everything.
The proper way to greet a visiting bureaucrat is to roll
out the red tape.
The best gift for the man who has everything is a burglar
alarm.
Say what you will about burglars, they still make house
calls.
People are strange: they want the front of the bus, the
back of the
church, and the center of attention.
A man's accomplishment in business depends partly on
whether he keeps his mind or his feet on the desk.
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a
girl in the dark. You know what you're doing, but she doesn't.
Never give advice ‑ sell it!
An honest merchant is one who puts up a "going out of
business" sign ‑ and then goes out of business.
Business is so bad that even shoplifters have stopped
coming.
I see where several of our politicians are predicting a
return of
prosperity as soon as business picks up.
If efficiency experts are so smart about running a
business, how
come they are always working for somebody else?
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
When you are skinning your customers you should leave some
skin on
to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nikita Khrushchev
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made
a
courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do
anything.
J. K. Galbraith
A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
Ivan Shaffer
Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up.
Will
If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind,
what is
indicated by an empty desk?
Anonymous
The
James Holland
A company is judged by the president it keeps.
James Hulbert
Along this tree
From root to crown
Ideas flow up
And vetoes down.
Peter Drucker
The man who minds his own business usually has a good one.
Anonymous
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Alexander Dumas
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to
three words:
people, product, and profits. People come first.
Lee Iacocca
It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that
business has
to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving
or you
fall down.
John David Wright
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before
kings.
Proverbs 22:29
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
Chinese proverb
Tell everybody your business and they will do it for you.
Italian proverb
The playthings of our elders are called business.
Let every man mind his own business.
Spanish proverb
Honesty is one business policy that will never have to be
changed to keep up with the times.
A disgruntled housewife suspects her butcher of using
phony scales, "Just recently I didn't buy anything and it weighed three
pounds."
Humor is the lubricating oil of business. It prevents
friction and wins good will.
A husband seldom tells his wife about his business
troubles until she wants to buy something expensive.
Imagination is what makes the average man think he can run
the business better than his boss.
Nothing gives a man more leisure time than always being on
time for appointments.
Nightclub business is so slow these days that even the
waiters are insulting each other.
No business opportunity is ever lost. If you fumble it
your competitor will find it.
What we need is less government in business and more
business in government.
Patriotism is the willingness to make any sacrifice as
long as it won't hurt business.
The trouble with mixing business and pleasure is that
pleasure usually comes out on top.
The man who lives only for himself runs a very small
business.
A "gentleman's agreement" is a deal which
neither party cares to put in writing.
Baby sitting is a big business because it meets a crying
need.
If you want to go far in business, you'll have to stay
close to it.
Business is "sound," the experts say, but at
times the sound is a little mournful.
Business know‑how is when a fellow knows his business
and what's none of his business.
A store window sign in
The marble business must be booming ‑many people
seem to have lost theirs.
A business is too big when it takes a week for gossip to
go from one end of the office to the other.
In the business world transactions speak louder than
words.
Sign on the door of a business office in
The reason business conditions are so unsettled is
because so many accounts are.
In modern business it isn't the crook that we fear, but
the honest man who doesn't know what he's doing.
If you would like to know how to operate a big business,
ask the man who hasn't any.
Competition may be the life of trade, but it's often the
death of profit.
A scissor sharpener is the only person whose business is
good when things are dull.
Business is something which, if you don't have any, you go
out of.
Business needs more orders from customers and fewer from
the government.
Modern business has made buying easy, but paying is as
hard as it ever was.
Business is like a bicycle ‑ when it isn't moving
forward at a good speed it wobbles.
A person or persons may decide to go into business, but
the public decides whether or not a business stays in business.
The secret of business is to count your blessings while
others are adding up their troubles.
Business will continue to go where invited and will remain
where appreciated.
The reason some folks can't mind their own business is
because they have very little mind and no business.
A shady business never produces a sunny life.
Business is the only thing which can be dead and still
have a chance to survive.
During the depression business was so quiet you could even
hear the passing of the dividends.
People would be delighted to attend to their own business
if the government would give it back to them.
The best way for any business to keep on the upgrade is to
stay on the level.
Anyone who thinks the customer isn't important should try
doing without him for a period of ninety days.
Business is made good by. yearning, learning, and earning.
The best way to go into business is with high hopes and
low overhead.
A successful executive in business is the one who can
delegate all the responsibility, shift all the blame, and appropriate all the
credit.
Business is a lot like tennis ‑ those who don't serve
well wind up losing.
He who has the habit of smiling at the cash register
instead of the customer won't be smiling long.
One trouble with credit business is that there is too much
stall in installments.
Business forecasters are uncertain about the future and
hazy about the present.
Business is like an automobile. It won't run itself,
except downhill.
It isn't exactly true to say that business came back.
Certain people went after it.
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's
pocket without resorting to violence.
Most people find that running a business is no trouble at
all ‑ as long as it's the other fellow's.
The trouble with the business world is that there are too
many one‑ulcer men holding down two‑ulcer jobs.
Business is tough these days. If a man does something
wrong he gets fined; if he does something right he gets taxed.
In the hectic confusion of modern society it would be nice
to experience a few dull moments occasionally.
Crime seems to be the only big business to escape
government meddling.
A dentist is a man who runs a filling station. He is also
a collector of old magazines.
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.
An efficiency expert is smart enough to tell you how to
run your own business, and too smart to start one of his own.
An efficiency expert is a man hired by an executive who is
too tenderhearted to fire his own employees.
The average efficiency expert is a person who has no
business of his own to wreck.
Sign on a company bulletin board in
When they say a man is a "born executive," they
mean his father owns the business.
A good executive is judged by the company he keeps ‑
solvent.
In the language of flowers, the yellow rose means
friendship, the red rose means love, and the orchid means business.
A business genius is a man who knows the difference
between being let in on a deal and taken in on one.
It isn't the number of people employed in a business that
makes it successful. It's the number working.
Business is like a wheelbarrow ‑ it stands still
unless somebody pushes it:
It isn't the business you get that counts, it's the
business you hold.
Not too long ago business got so bad that some men went
bankrupt, and some went back to their wives.
The business to stay out of is the other fellow's.
A man who is immersed in business all week should come up
for a breath of fresh air on Sunday ‑ at church.
A good business manager hires optimists as salesmen and
pessimists to run the credit department.
Golf is a game that gives you something to do while you're
nailing down a business deal.
Businessmen
Executive ability is a talent for deciding something
quickly and getting someone else to do it.
Executive ability is the art of getting credit for all the
hard work that somebody else does.
In good times businessmen want to advertise; in bad times
they have to.
When two men in business always agree about everything,
one of them is unnecessary.
A businessman boasts that he and his wife started out with
absolutely nothing, "And we've got most of it left."
A successful executive in business is the one who can
delegate all the responsibility, shift all the blame, and appropriate all the
credit.
Many businessmen refuse to cash personal checks because
sometimes the checks come back but the customers don't.
An efficient businessman who found a machine that would
do half his work bought two.
A businessman in
Every businessman ought to sit back, close his eyes, and
meditate for a while every day ‑ and try not to snore.
A modern executive is a man who wears out his clothes at
the seat of his pants first.
Many men are able to solve big problems at the office, but
are unable to settle little ones at home.
Prosperity is something that businessmen create for
politicians to take the credit for.
Retirement has cured many a businessman's ulcers ‑
and given his wife one!
Among the chief worries of today's business executives is
the large number of unemployed still on the payrolls.
Noah was the first businessman mentioned in the Bible. He floated
a company at a time when the rest of the world was under liquidation.
An
The American businessman has a problem: if he comes up with
something new the Russians invent it six months later and the Japanese make
it cheaper.
Sign on a businessman's desk: "My decision is maybe ‑
and that's final."
Many a businessman wanted his son to share in the business
but the government beat him to it.
A certain businessman complained about his partner,
"He's a real phony ‑ I wouldn't believe him if he said he was
lying."
There's a certain businessman in Houston who had to stop
attending baseball games. He just couldn't stand hearing the umpire call a
strike.
A businessman who came up the hard way observes that about
all you can do on a shoestring these days is trip.
A
The businessman is coming to realize that education is to
business what fertilizer is to farming.
None so busy as those who do nothing.
French proverb
There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Italian proverb
Let the buyer beware.
Latin proverb
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to
buy
anything is last year.
Marty Allen
Who buys has need of two eyes
But one's enough to sell the stuff.
Anonymous
Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't
resist.
Franklin P. Jones
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
Anonymous
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis