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Quote Library War War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. --Cardinal Richelieu This kind of (nuclear) weapon can’t help but have an effect on the population as a whole. – Ronald Reagan "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951 There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin, 1773 It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. -- Douglas MacArthur, 1952 A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerrilla it faces. – Fulgencio Batista, Jan. 1, 1959 If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought will bows and arrows. – Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1975 This is an era of violent peace. – Adm. James D. Watkins, Dec. 7, 1986 Yours is a society which cannot accept 10,000 dead in one battle. – Saddam Hussein, 1991 "I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival Speech in the House of Commons upon taking office as prime minister (May 13, 1940) -- Winston Churchill "Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." * Speech in the House of Commons (June 18, 1940) -- Winston Churchill Washington Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.-- John F. Kennedy Wealth The rich aren’t like us, they pay less taxes -- Peter De Vries If you want to be rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy. -- Unknown Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. -- Jean Anouilh Instead of reaching people in their cocoons, the church itself is cocooning. In stead of making the church as comfortable as the home, the church is itself constructing fragile fortresses. When the church goes into a cocoon, there is no telling what sort of creatures will emerge from it. -- Leonard Sweet Money has demonically usurped the role in modern society which the Holy Spirit is to have in the Church. -- Thomas Merton Satan now is wiser than of yore. And tempts by making rich, not by making poor. -- Samuel Pope The time for getting people to come to church is over. It is time to get people to come to Christ... Replace centripetal evangelism that tries to draw outsiders in with centrifugal evangelism that drives insiders out. -- Leonard Sweet The church wouldn’t even make a good museum any more. Museums are more fun. -- Leonard Sweet ‘Inopem me copia fecit’ -- Plty has made me poor. -- Latin Proverb He that serves God for money will serve he Devil for better wages. -- Sir Robert L’Estrange I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception. -- William Wilberforce "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." — Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher "You are not what you own." — Fugazi, late 20th-century American rock band "I get so tired of listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there. It's so petty." — Imelda Marcos, 20th- century Filipino First Lady (married to Ferdinand Marcos) "When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion." — Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 18th-century French author, wit and philosopher "Virtue has never been as respectable as money."— Mark Twain, 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist "God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones." — Publilius Syrus “It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.'' — Elvis Presley, 20th-century American celebrity singer “Sharing money is what gives it its value.” — Elvis Presley, 20th-century American celebrity singer “The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.” — Antiphanes, ancient Greek dramatist “Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.” — B.C. Forbes, early 20th-century American publisher, founder of Forbes magazine "He is poor who does not feel content." — Japanese proverb "For greed, all nature is too little." — Seneca, Roman statesman and author "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." — Henry David Thoreau, 19th-century American essayist and nature writer "Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold." — Maurice Setter Weather April is the cruelest month. -- T. S. Eliot Weariness Weddings In
the wedding, the sequence is something like this: You
may have started off as an ideal The
three rings of a marriage Winning / Losing The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. – Heywood Broun, 1922 Wisdom Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- -- Schopenhauer, Life There’s only twelve inches difference between a halo and a noose. -- Anonymous The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel Boorstin Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. -- Duke of Wellington Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgment. -- Unknown Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. --William Saroyan Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. --Greek Proverb "All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it." — Syrus "If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it." — William Penn "A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody." — Unknown "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." — Francis Bacon, 16th-century English philosopher and essayist "The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete." — Lao-Tzu (Tao Te Ching) "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." — Cato, Roman censor "Never kick a man when he’s up." — Thomas "Tip" O’Neill, 20th-century American politician, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1970s-1980s "Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased." — Ralph C. Smedley “To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public philosopher and poet “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” — Henri Bergson "To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning." — John W. Gardner, 20th-century American nonprofit leader, founder of Common Cause "Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose." — Unknown Women PMS stands for: "Punish My Spouse..." "In
spite of my 30 years of research into the feminine soul Words Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. --John Maynard Keynes Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Don’t let your mouth write a check your body can’t cash. -- Flip Wilson as Geraldine Nothing, surely, is more alive than a word. -- J.D. Adams ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.’ -- Lewis Carroll The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. -- Chinese Proverb "MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts." -- Winston Churchill If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. --Tom Lehrer I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. --A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Work "The marathon culture of 'I work harder than you do' is nothing but an excuse to avoid making the hard decisions." -- Seth Godin Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. So far from being a curse, work is the greatest blessing. -- unknown (Three
rules of work) There is not substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of mere duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one’s character. -- Walter Camp If I insist that my work be rewarding, that it mustn’t be tedious or monotonous, I’m in trouble... It’s ridiculous to demand that work always be pleasurable, because work is not necessarily pleasing; sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. If we’re detached and simply pick up the job we have to do and go ahead and do it, it’s usually fairly satisfying. Even jobs that are repugnant or dull or tedious tend to be puite satisfying, once we get right down to doing them... This happens when we just do what we have to do. -- Thomas Merton, (quoted in Inc., July, 1992, p. 11) Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do you best will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. -- Charles Kingsley We must all go and work in the garden. -- Voltaire I’d rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men. -- D. L. Moody Play is work a body is not obligated to do." -- Mark Twain The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else’s work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. -- Henry Ford Man is made to be in the visible universe an image and likeness of God Himself, and he is place in it in order to subdue the earth. From the beginning therefore he is called to work. -- Pope John Paul II NAPOLEON
SOLO:Are you free? All men were created to busy themselves with labor... for the common good. -- John Calvin If a man is called to be a street sweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Business information is doubling about every three years. In other words, in three years you'll have twice as much noise to sift through just to get your work done." - From Simplicity, by Bill Jensen "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben Worry There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever." -- Mahatma Gandhi Afternoon, n.: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning. It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. --Unknown Worship There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ. The song, the dance, the banners have been accepted as worship instead of being seen as a means of expressing worship. -- Judson Cornwall It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church. We should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lask us to our pews. For the sleeping god may awake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return. -- Annie Dillard, in Teaching a Stone to Talk Writing My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. -- Ernest Hemingway Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor If you can think, then you can write. -- William Randolph Hearst I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend -- to make flights, carrying others along if he could manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit. -- E. B. White If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. -- Cynthia Ozick The weakest ink is stronger than the strongest memory. -- Chinese philosopher Writing: "Turning one’s worst moments into money" -- J. P. Donleavy, Irish author In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself..." -- Alfred Kazin Write as if you are dying. -- Annie Dillard "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where." -- Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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