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.
Nuggets 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 memorizing 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 unprincipled, 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 |
| 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 |
| Before borrowing money from a friend, you had better decide which you need more. |
If you want to know who your friends are, just make a mistake.
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| Too many people stop looking for work when they get a job. |
| The man who is incapable of making mistakes is incapable of everything. Abraham Lincoln |
| Prejudice is being down on what you are not up on. |
| Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something you want done because they want to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| One of the greatest labor saving devices of today is tomorrow. |
| An argument is the longest distance between two points. |
| Some people have a keen sense of humor. The more you humor them the better they like it. |
| You cannot cure a blind person by increasing the light. |
| The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. |
| If you want to kill time, why not try working it to death? |
| It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before. |
| A fanatic is one who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill |
| Jumping to conclusions is not half as good exercise as digging for facts. |
| The existence of the sea means the existence of pirates. Malay proverb |
| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Benjamin Franklin |
| People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. Will Rogers |
| A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather. |
| There is no sense in advertising your troubles. There is no market for them. |
Nuggets
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From All Over |
| A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. |
| My "grapes of wrath" have mellowed into a fine whine. |
| An angry person is rarely reasonable. A reasonable person is rarely angry. |
| Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth. |
| Being young is beautiful but being old is comfortable. |
| It was either Dear Abby or Ann Landers (they are sisters) who once received a letter from a writer who was offended when visitors to their church didn't dress properly. The reply was a classic: "Honey, church is a hospital for sick souls, not a museum for saints." |
| Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden. |
| Don't count the days. Make the days count. Muhammad Ali |
| If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. Abigail Van Buren |
| Courage is fear that has said its prayers. |
| Pain and suffering are inevitable. Misery is optional. |
| When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing to say. |
| Speak only well of people and you need never whisper. |
| Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. |
| Don't let worry get you down. Remember, Moses started out as a basket case. |
| If you believe in living in the future, just remember that he who lives by the crystal ball is destined to eat ground glass. |
| Make new friends but keep the old. The new are silver, the old are gold. |
| It's man's job to respect a woman, but it's a woman's job to give him something to respect. |
| Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it will always get you the right ones. John Lennon |
| Today's trial is tomorrow's testimony. |
| The problems of today will be buried by the sands of time. Fortune cookie |
| Hate corrodes the vessel that contains it. |
| Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Buddha |
| You can lead a man to Congress but you cannot make him think. Milton Berle |
| You don't stop laughing because you get old. You get old because you stop laughing. |
| Lord, I can't say it with words. Can you please just listen through my heart? |
| My little sister came home from school one day and asked if I would take her to the library so she could get a book on sign language. When I asked why she said there was a new kid at school who was deaf and she wanted to befriend him. Today I stood by her at their wedding and watched her sign "I do". |
| Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body. George Carlin |
| A reporter asked an elderly couple: "How did you manage to stay together for 65 years?" The woman replied, "We were born in a time when if something was broken we would fix it, not throw it away. |
| You have only three choices in life: Give up, give in, or give it all you've got. |
| Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Dr. Seuss. |
| Don't confuse the people who are always around with the ones who are always there. |
| If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain. |
| The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. |
| You don't stop having fun when you get old. You get old when you stop having fun. |
| Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up they sit down and listen for a while. |
| I got mood poisoning. It must have been something I hate. |
| If only closed minds came with closed mouths. |
| Don't be upset by the results you don't get with the work you didn't do. |
| To truly find yourself you should play "hide and seek" alone. |
| Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. |
| Happy people don't have the best of everything. They make the best of everything. |
| Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Buddha. |
| When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, you can let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. |
| Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. |
| No matter how bad you think your life, wake up each day and be thankful for what you have. Someone somewhere is fighting just to survive. |
| Well, I made it through the day without having to beat anyone to death with a chair. I would say my people skills are improving. |
| Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you no one would believe it. |
| Middle age is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. |
| Worry is the darkroom where negatives are developed. |
| Friendship blossoms when two people say to each other, in effect : " What ? You too ? I thought I was the only one! |
| 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. |
| When everything is going to hell in a hand basket, the solution some people choose is to buy more hand baskets. Bob Morrisson |
