Quotes

Honor is better than honors. - Abraham Lincoln

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Ambrose Bierce

One man with courage is a majority. -- President Thomas Jefferson

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

When an old person dies, a library is lost. - Tommy Swann

Living on Earth is expensive, but it includes a free trip around the sun

The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges.

Life Doesn't Come With An Instruction Book - That's Why We Have Fathers. - An Anonymous Dad

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Men will spend their health getting wealth; then gladly pay all they have earned to get health back. - Mike Murdock

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? - Lily Tomlin

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. - Glen Wheeler

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- President John Quincy Adams

"Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency. -- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist newspaper editor, 1805-1879

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. - President Abraham Lincoln, from a letter, 1859

Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few weeks of captivity, they can train humans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish?

bumper sticker: Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. - A wise Dad

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. - Fred Allen

Quit griping about your church; if it were perfect, you couldn't belong. - Msgr. Joseph P. Dooley, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania

If a church wants a better pastor, it can get one by praying for the one it has. - Rev. Robert E. Harris

Every evening I turn my troubles over to God - He's going to be up all night anyway. - Donald J. Morgan, Columbus, Ohio

I don't know why some people change churches - what difference does it make which one you stay home from? - Rev. Denny Brake

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. - Rev. Denny Brake

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage. - David Jeremiah

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parent from time to time to see him on his knees; or going aside regularly, to keep times with the lord.- Larry Christenson

O, Lord... Build me a son whoes heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. - General Douglas MacArthur

A young successful attorney said: The greatest gift I ever received was a gift I got one Christmas when my dad gave me a small box. Inside was a note saying, "Son, this year I will give you 365 hours, an hour every day after dinner." My dad not only kept his promise, he said, but every year he renewed it and it's the greatest gift I ever had in my life. I am the result of his time.

Every human being on this planet has someone who s/he disagrees with -- a spouse, a parent, a child, a boss, an employee. It is amazing that a parent can walk into a teenager's room, blow his top about the messiness of the room, the irresponsibility of the child, the impossibility of finding anything, the health hazards and the lack of consideration for others -- and expect his child to say, "Gee, Dad, I never thought of that before; thank you for pointing it out. I am definitely going to change!" When that doesn't happen, the parent often figures that maybe next time if he yells just a little bit louder, the message will get through. (Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.) - Rabbi Kalman Packouz

"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Robert E. Lee