1 - 2 - 3 - 4A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek. She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again. Finally she spoke up, "Grandpa, did God make you?"
"Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time ago."
"Oh," she paused, "Grandpa, did God make me too?"
"Yes, indeed honey," he said, "God made you just a little while ago."
Feeling their respective faces again, she observed, "God's getting better at it, isn't he?"
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
-C.S. Lewis |
All animals, except man, know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
-Samuel Butler |
All bicycles weigh 50 pounds, except that a 30 pound bicycle needs a 20 pound
lock, a 40 pound
bicycle needs a 10 pound lock, and a 50 pound bicycle does not need a lock. |
All fingers are not alike,
If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism,
If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism,
If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism. |
| All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness. |
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable;
and those who move. -Benjamin Franklin |
| All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction -- down. |
| All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner. |
| All mothers are working mothers. |
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile,
the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
-Mark Kennedy |
| All of us are God's creatures... just some are more creature than others. |
| All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. |
| All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. |
| All sunshine makes a desert. |
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do
nothing. -Edmund Burke |
| All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday. |
| All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. |
| All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with. |
| All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney |
| A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. |
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. -
Benjamin Franklin |
| A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. |
| A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing. |
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller |
Although they had no first aid class,
Egyptians were not dummies.
They knew the art of bandaging,
They learned it from their Mummies. |
| A luxury once enjoyed becomes a necessity. |
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
-Wendell Johnson |
| Always buy good shoes, and a good bed. Because if you aren't in one, you're in the other. |
| Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names. |
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
-Brian Tracy |
Always keep several get well cards on the mantel. If unexpected guests arrive,
they'll think you've been sick and unable to clean. |
| Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them. |
| Always leave loved ones with loving words, it may be the last time you see them. |
| Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. |
A man and his wife are sitting in the living room and he says to her: "Just so you know,
I never want to live in a vegetative state dependent on some machine. If that ever happens,
just pull the plug." His wife gets up and unplugs the TV. |
| A man convinced against his will is still of the same opinion. |
A man has nothing to loose in trying, however: he may loose if he fails to try.
-Monsieur Nana Adom |
A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his
doctor instead of by the police. |
A man in a hurry taking his 8-year-old son to school, made a turn at a red light
where it was prohibited.
"Uh-oh, I just made an illegal turn!" the man said.
"Aw, Dad, it's okay" the son said. "The police car right behind us did the same thing." |
A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help a child.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does; but he is
surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
| A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -John Barrymore 1943 |
| A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. -Latin Proverb |
A man listens to his son yelling at his mother. After they finish fighting and make up
the man calls his son and says: "Take this hammer and drive this nail into that piece
of wood". Afterwards the father tells him to pull out the nail. Than the father said:
"When you fight with your mother, you drive a nail through her heart. But look at how
when you are forgiven and you take out the nail, the hole stays." |
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became
more and more quiet until in the end he realised that prayer is listening.
-Soren Kierkegaard |
| A man's knowledge can never outweigh his experience. |
| A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life. |
A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only
two minutes apart!"
"Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No, you idiot!" the man shouted.
"This is her husband!" |
A man's reach should exceed its grasp. -Browning
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