A collection if proverbs, wit, inspiration, and more contributed by our visitors. Please free to send us your favorites. Collections may wind up here, while single sayings may appear in our Proverbs section.
Proverbs Collected by
Frances Morrisson |
| Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. Billy Graham |
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Proverb: A short sentence based on long experience. |
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Budget: A formula for determining when you need a raise. |
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Horse Sense: What keeps horses from betting on what people do. |
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Dieting: A way of starving yourself to death so you can live longer. |
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Gossip: A keen sense of rumor. |
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| Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do. |
| Two things are bad for the heart: Running up stairs and running down people. |
| Philosophy is what everyone knows in language no one can understand. |
| Modern man wants to be treated like an invalid rather than as a sinner. |
| Example is the most powerful rhetoric |
| Encouragement is oxygen for the soul |
| Weak doctrines will not be a match for powerful temptations. |
| Flattery turns more heads than garlic. |
| During a long lifetime I have had to eat my own words many times and have found it a very nourishing diet. Winston Churchill |
| Conscience is God's preacher in the bosom. |
| A true test of character is how we behave when we don't know what to do. |
| There is more to Christian growth than knowing what the Bible says. Nobody is ever nourished by memorising menus. |
| How to respond to an atheist: Invite him for a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there was a cook. |
Abstract art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprinicipled, to the utterly bewildered. |
| You look like an advance agent for a panic. |
| Her hair looks like it made a forced landing. |
| He has a concrete mind - all mixed up and permanently set. |
| A great many people seem to embalm their troubles. I always feel like running away when I see them coming. Dwight L. Moody |
| We live in a day of perfect means and confused goals. Albert Einstein |
| Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day to day living that wears me out. Anton Chekov |
Religous Nuggets
Collected by Frances Morrisson |
| God's work done in God's way will never lack supply. Hudson Taylor |
| My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. General "Stonewall" Jackson |
| The Bible is alive. It speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; and hands: it lays hold of me. Martin Luther. |
| I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun - not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis. |
| Christianity is not to be judged by the fruitless hypocrisy and failures of some who claim membership. |
| God parts that and us which would part us and Him. Ralph Venning |
Nuggets
Gathered
From Friends and Associates |
| Never trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you. From a fortune cookie. |
| Don't spend the rest of you life with someone you can live with. Spend it with someone you can't live without. |
| If you want to get to the top first you have to get off your bottom. |
| Scars are there to remind us of where we've been, they don't dictate where we're going. |
| When speaking with people, before they care to know they need to know you care. Courtesy of Rev. Fred Carr. |
| A goal without a plan is just a wish. From a wise Filipino philosopher, courtesy of Ed Foskey. |
| Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Courtesy of Sakthi Madhappan |
| A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at them. |
A friend should be someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. |
| Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. From a fortune cookie. |
