If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke)
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. (Charles Luckman)
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. (Mark Twain)
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. (Anon.)
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Pray you now, forget and forgive. (William Shakespeare)
Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god been taken by surprise in the crucifixion of Christ Would He now be forced to resort to some makeshift arrangement No, for the crucifixion was all part of--indeed, the central part of, His secret, eternal plan, now revealed to Paul. (Cornelius Stam)
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about. (Oprah Winfrey)
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. (Jean Anouilh)
Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. (Bernard De Voto)
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
If I ever become a mummy, I'm going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on a spring shoots out. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke. (Herman Melville)
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. (George Bernard Shaw)
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. (Sir Walter Scott)
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Francis Bacon)
We relish news of our heroes, Forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. (Helen Hayes)
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas. (Marchioness Townsend)
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. (John Barrymore)
God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us (Mark McGee)