quotes for lost loved ones

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke



If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ~Mrs. Sarah S.B. Yule credits this quotation to Ralph Waldo Emerson in her Borrowings, 1889



The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. ~Author Unknown



America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. ~Aurora Raigne



Opportunity is a bird that never perches. ~Claude McDonald



The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920



Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck. ~Author Unknown



Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. ~Felix Cohen



The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox



Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. ~Anso Coetzer



A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde



Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. ~Sheila Rowbotham



That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. ~Bertran de Born



Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash



Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell



Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. ~Ambrose Bierce



Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe. ~Gabriela Mistral, Desolacion



You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Earl Hickey



We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall



You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

funny christian quotes

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas



To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967



Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ~Charles Dickens



When you gamble with safety, you bet your life. ~Author Unknown



Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. ~Billy Elmer



Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach



"This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini



Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651



Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ~Max Eastman



Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. ~Susan Scarf Merrell



A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right. Author Unknown



Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Author Unknown



Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic. ~Amanda Baxter



Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. ~Harlan Mills



Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. ~Malcolm de Chazal



Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855



Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. ~Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History



A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown

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