In Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol, old Ebenezer Scrooge changes from "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner" to "as good a friend, as good a master and as good a man, as the good old city knew, and any other good old city, town or borough in the good old world."

"As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined."

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking Him for them." -- St. Vincent de Paul

President Coolidge and his Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon were so taciturn that someone said they conversed in pauses.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present." -- A. Lincoln

"The war we're in isn't between civilizations but for civilization." -- Tony Blair

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

Church bulletin: "The Low-Self Esteem Club will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. Please use the back door."

"We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us." -- Golda Meir

"Oh, it's home again and home again. America for me!

"I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea.

"To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,

"Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars." -- Henry Van Dyke

"Dogs don't say goodbye." -- Snoopy

"I love being a writer but can't stand the paperwork." -- de Vries

"Man is the only creature that laughs and has a state legislature." -- Samuel Butler

"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

"Too soon old. Too late smart." -- German

"The world will pity you for what you lose, but never for what you lack. Russian author." -- Ann-Sophie Swetchine

"Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most."

"Most important, this should be a season of joy. Don't be hard on yourself if you slip up. Just get back on track."

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it." -- French

"The happy ending is our national belief."

"Good judgement comes from experience and experience can come from bad judgement."

"The Christian experience of regeneration and the Christian hope for human happiness -- and the loneliness of Hell." -- Dickens

"It's hard to hate up close."

"Democracy is like blowing your nose, you may not do it well, but you ought to do it yourself." -- Chesterton

"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that is within you." -- 1 Peter 3:15

"Humans are the most powerful, creative and adaptive species ever to roam this remarkable planet. We have overcome hunger, disease and oppression -- we can overcome ecological crises."

"Americans come from so many places. That we share a skepticism toward central authority has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be."

"Just a closer walk with thee,/Grant it Jesus is my plea,/ Daily walking close to thee,/ Let it be, Dear Lord, let it be."

"God loves each as if there is no other in all the world to love and God loves all as God loves each!"

"When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more and the morning breaks eternal bright and fair. When the saved on earth shall gather over on the other shore and the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there."

Attorney Austin Cunningham has been the president of five business companies and in 1988 was named Outstanding Elder Citizen of the Year for South Carolina.

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