“Lord help me to believe in beginnings, to make a beginning, to be a beginning so that I may not just grow old, but grow new each day to this wild amazing life you call me to live.”
There are 44 sounds in the English language, but only 26 letters in the alphabet.
Moynihan: “America is the party of liberty – Europe the party of equality.”
“So this is the little lady who made this big war!” – Abraham Lincoln to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
“The measure of any government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” – Hubert Humphrey
Beautiful words in our Constitution: “Congress shall make no law ...”
Visiting friends when they received a telephone call from their recently married daughter. After several tense moments, the mother told the father to pick up the extension. The newlyweds had had their first big fight. In a few minutes, the father rejoined us. He tersely explained, said she wanted to come home.
“What did you tell her?” I asked. “Told her she was home.”
Birth of second child after difficult labor. But the beautiful daughter emerged perfect in every way. Later the husband looked at her with tears in his eyes. He looked up at her mother and she expected him to say something poetic. Instead, he asked, “What’s her name again?”
“There is no frigate like a book to take us yards away.” – Emily Dickinson
“From there to here; from here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
“In the end, it will be the servants that save us all.” – Sargent Shriver
“Man may have discovered fire but women discovered how to play with it.”
“Mount to paradise by the stairway of enterprise.”
“Let us brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say this is their finest hour.” – Churchill
“Take what man makes and use it, but do not worship it; for it shall pass.”
“A change of leadership is the joy of fools.” – Rumanian
“Movies should have a beginning, middle and end, but not necessarily in that order.”
“Of writing well, be sure the secret lies/ In wisdom therefore, study to be wise.” – Kirsch
“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” – Martin Luther
“Enlightenment, faith, that peace is the natural order and war a temporary aberration.”
“Her trains of thought had no cabooses.”
“You don’t have to be right for me to be wrong.”
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucious
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Thoreau
“All writing is confession.” – Goethe (1830)
“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its thinking done by fools and its fighting by cowards.” – Wm. Francis Butler
Irving Kristol has written, “the clear signs of rot and decadence germinating within American society ... have been ruthlessly corrupted by the liberal ethos. It is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectiveness on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other. It cannot win but it can make us all losers.”
Van Gogh described the night as more richly colored than the day.
“There are two kinds statistics – the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
“When I was a boy the world was a better spot/ What was so was so. What was not was not./ Now I am a man. World has changed a lot/ Some things nearly so, others nearly not.”
“You can take my factories, burn my buildings but give me my people and I’ll bring my business right back again.” – Henry Ford
“Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he did.” – Dale Carnegie
“Long dark night of the soul ... finding grace ... it’s clog and slog and scootch on the floor in silence in the dark.”
“Success doesn’t mean absence of failure – it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war not every battle.”
“I and the public know/ what all school children learn/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return.” – W.H. Auden
“Every dawn signs a new contract with existence.” – Amiel
“You can do very little with Faith but you can do nothing without it.” – Samuel Butler
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – Plato (3476 B.C. Greek philosopher)
Does anybody on television work any harder than Wolf Blitzer?
“To God every child is a first-born.”
“There are no jokes in Islam.” – Khomeini
One penguin to another, “Stop saying it’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
“The opposite of war is creation.”
“Way to end war fast: lose it.”
Two hunters aroused mother bear. Started chasing them. Was gaining and they were approaching exhaustion.
First Hunter: “We can’t outrun this bear.”
Second Hunter: “Don’t have to. Just have to outrun you.”
“How small of all that human hearts endure/ That part which laws of kings can cause or cure?”
“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.” – Eric Hoffer
Man, Marvin Bryant, whose son was murdered. Formed “Parents of Murdered Children.” “I believe I can share with others what may happen if they don’t change their lives.”
“The first effect of not believing in God is that you lose common sense, and can’t see things as they are.” – Chesterton
“Only those who can see the invisible can do the impossible.”
“You never know when you’re making a memory.”
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.