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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. ~Psalms 90:12



Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson



If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, "The Gun"



Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. ~Walter A. Mueller



A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. ~Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November 1843



Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George Bernard Shaw



Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry Ford



When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ~William Blake



A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. ~John Henry Newman



Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. ~Author Unknown



Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular. ~Henri de Mondeville



If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets



I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation. ~Rev. Jerry Falwell



All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ~William Mathews



Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~Don Marquis



Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ~Victoria Secunda



Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. ~Brendan Francis



The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. ~Sean Ningen



Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?" ~John Stewart



When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. ~Author Unknown