January '04 Epigrams of the Day

Try these: a kind thought, a kind word, a kind deed.

I worship the sun, but, Terese, it is the rising sun, not the setting.

In the Promised Land there were always a few people who kicked because the Milk was too yellow and the Honey too sweet.

You will find God everywhere excepting a School of Divinity.

If you can't be pure, you can at least be sanitary.

Commonsense is the ability to detect values.

Democracy is the mob organized by the ballot. Safety lies in educating the mob.

Seek first the kingdom of honesty and all the other graces acquire.

The man who marries a model housekeeper has more trouble than the hobo who reported, "One empty going East."

Seek first the kingdom of honesty and all the other graces acquire.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Suppose you be, not merely seem.

Thus do all things move in circles.

Health is an achievement. If you want it you have to say so, and then work for it.

Happiness is a habit. If you do not get used to being happy here, you'll never be happy in Heaven.

There is no joy in life equal to the joy of putting salt on the tail of an idea.

The three sweetest words in the English language are, "Enclosed find check," or possibly, "I adore you."

Health is an achievement. If you want it you have to say so, and then work for it.

Success in life turns on salesmanship.

The meanest habit in the world is that of self-pity.

Action will remove the doubt which theory cannot solve.

Our sorrows are emotional small change.

Some of your griefs you have cured, and the sharpest you still have survived, but what torments of grief you endured, from the evils that never arrived.

Try these: a kind thought, a kind word, a kind deed.

Democracy is the mob organized by the ballot. Safety lies in educating the mob.

Those who can, do; those who cannot, organize a class and show others how.

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