If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success. Professor: One who talks in someone else’s sleep. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. What you don’t do is always more important than what you do do. Too much of a good thing is wonderful. I may have my faults, but being wrong isn’t one of them. Don’t go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
All of the justice in the world isn’t fastened up in the courthouse. Meaning: You don’t need the law to tell you to do the right thing. Better to keep your mouth shut and seem a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
EMPTY WAGON There is a saying from Plato (427-347 BC) that says, “An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.” A similar tale to Plato’s quote: “As I walked one day with my father, he suddenly ask me: ‘Besides the song of the birds, do you hear anything else?’ ‘Yes, I answered. The noise of a wagon.’ ‘Excellent, he said. And it is empty.’ ‘Empty? How do you know if you haven’t seen it?’ ‘Very easy: because of the noise it makes. The emptier the wagon is, the greater noise it makes.’ The son continues, ‘Since then…when I see someone talking too much, bragging of what he has, and belittling others, I seem to hear my father’s voice: ‘The emptier the wagon is…the greater the noise it makes’” “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Jesus
We would be happy if we studied nature more in natural things, and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. William Penn The day, water, sun, moon, night—I do not have to purchase these things with money. Plautus Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. May Sarton Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. Lincoln Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. Dan Quayle A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
July 25, 2020 Verse of the Day As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; Psalms 103:13 NIV
July 26, 2020 Verse of the Day He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Isaiah 40:29 NIV
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. Thomas Jefferson In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Gandhi The trouble with people isn’t their ignorance—it’s the number of things they know that just ain’t so. Mark Twain In the glance of the speechless animal there is a discourse that only the soul of the wise can really understand. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
July 27, 2020 Verse of the Day The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 NIV
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (or anything at all) Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. When the solution is simple, God is probably answering.
From my unit chaplain Father Josh ( Jesuit ): "An empty barrel makes the most noise" ( see Tbone's Plato quote above ). To those going in harms way: " You have only two , and only two things to worry about; first you live, then you die " And hey Dennis, where do get all those sayings from ? How's the recovery coming along ?
July 28, 2020 Verse of the Day Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Just a collection I've saved through the years. I love to from time to time just skimming through a few pages. Rather than a collection from one source or one theme I also pepper a few bits of humor in with the wisdom. Glad you and others like it. Sooner or later I'm bound to run out though. But imagine how long that could take if I posted just one per day!
Te secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child’s entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn’t know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones. There are many people who do not know how to waste time alone; they are the scourge of busy people. Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T.S. Elliot Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
July 29, 2020 Verse of the Day But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the word to you. Mark Twain It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. S. Leacock It is not failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. Confucius Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. Emerson
July 30, 2020 Verse of the Day Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? 1 Corinthians 3:16 NIV
