Wisdom

(authors unknown)

Impossibilities Vanish When A Man And His God Confront A Mountain.

Honor Is Better Than Honors.

If You Tell The Truth, You Don’t Have To Remember Anything.

We Rise By Lifting Others.

The Strongest Evidence Of Love Is Sacrifice.

The First Duty Of Love Is To Listen.

Big People Monopolize The Listening. Small People Monopolize The Talking.

Every Man Is Enthusiastic At Times. One Man Has Enthusiasm For Thirty Minutes, Another Has It For Thirty Days--But It Is The Man Who Has It For Thirty Years Who Makes A Success In Life.

Seek God First And The Things You Want Will Seek You.

I’ve Never Been Hurt By Anything I Didn’t Say.

The Way To Get To The Top Is To Get Off Your Bottom.

A Man Who Wants To Lead The Orchestra Must Turn His Back On The Crowd.

He Who Learned To Obey Will Know How To Command.

Carve Your Name On Hearts And Not On Marble.

You Can Accomplish More In One Hour With God Than One Lifetime Without Him.

The Greatest Use Of Life Is To Spend It For Something That Will Outlast It.

No Matter What A Man’s Past May Have Been, His Future Is Spotless.

Defeat Is Not The Worst Of Failures. Not To Have Tried Is The True Failure.

A Good Reputation Is More Valuable Than Money.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

By Roy English

1. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 2.Live a good and honorable life, then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time. 3.Don’t interfere with something that ain’t bothering you none. 4.If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin.’ 5.Sometimes you get, sometimes you get got. 6.Always drink upstream from the herd. 7.Good judgement comes from experience, and a lotta of that comes from bad judgement. 8.Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in. 9.Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and enjoy the ride. 10. Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just shoot you. 11. Your fences need to be horse high, pig tight and bull strong. 12. Don’t judge folks by their relatives. 13. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. 14. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. 15. Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled. 16. Manners don’t just happen overnight. 17. Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. 18. Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you. 19. It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge. 20. You cannot unsay a cruel word. 21. Every path has a few puddles. 22. When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. 23. The best sermons are lived, not preached. 24. Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t gonna happen anyway.

David Matheny

Yard by yard, life is hard, Inch by inch, it’s a cinch.

A wise old owl lived in an oak. The more he saw the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?

There is so much good in the worst of us. And so much bad in the best of us. That little it behooves any of us. To talk about the rest of us.

My World----Your World

By F. T. Mott

I took a walk the other day Where as a youth I used to play. I went to see just once again The fields and streams, the wooded glen, And that old sugar maple tree. Stone walls and hidden creature trails, Muskrat burrows along the brook, Wild birds in flight where’r you look’d; Coon and fox dens here and there, Wild beauty reigned just everywhere. A world, it seems, made just for me, A place on earth where I was free.

But wait! Is this the place I seek? It’s not a place for hike or trek; Nothing looks the same to me-And where is that old maple tree? There, cats and dogs and backyard sheds, Paved streets and cars and flower beds. It’s not my private world for play; Too many houses here today! I almost wish I hadn’t come. Progress--not for everyone. I sadly turned and walked away Where as a youth I used to play.

Seven Wonders of the World

Author Unknown

A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the “Seven Wonders of the World.” Though there we some disagreements, the following received the most votes:

1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids 2.Taj Mahal 3. Grand Canyon 4. Panama Canal 5. Empire State Building 6. St. Peter ’s Basilica 7. Great Wall of China

While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one quiet student hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.” The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.” The girl hesitated, then read, “I think the “Seven Wonders of the World” are:

1.To see 2.To hear 3.To touch 4.To taste 5.To feel 6.To laugh 7.And to love The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop. Just a gentle reminder-that the most precious things in life cannot be built by hand or bought by man.