bible quotes about death

If love can't cure it, nurses can. ~Author Unknown



The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown



Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown



The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. ~Author Unknown



Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955



You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Ghandi



Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3



To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness. ~Fyodor Dostoevski



The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb



Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket. ~Ambrose Bierce



We seem as a nation to be suffering from a mania for play. The huge development of pleasure-chasing automobiles merely symbolizes our universal restless eagerness to be running after something, anything, that we can classify as diversion. Under pressure from tormenting constituents our legislatures are piling up holidays. And the cry of labor everywhere is "Cut down hours; cut down hours," until it seems as if brief, tired minutes were all that would be left for work. The obvious deduction is that work is always something to be got rid of, as if it were a curse. Yet life is work. ~Author unknown, editorial from Labor Digest, June 1922, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ~Walter Bagehot



The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. ~Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968



Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy



There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying. ~Josh Billings



All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman



History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; priviledging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. ~Thomas Fuller



The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. ~Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe v. Wade, 22 January 1973 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ~Rita Mae Brown



A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. ~William Allen White