One-liners and proverbs part It-Jz
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It doesn't matter if you win or lose until you lose. It doesn't matter what temperature the room is; it's always room-temperature. I thank you God that I can be a father. I cherish the hug from my son or daughter. I pray my Dear Father that in some small way You will feel my love as I hug you today. (Richard Wimer) It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats. I think if I have a good breakfast I could go without food for the rest of the day. I think that until about lunchtime. I think I've found the trouble with our economy. There are far more ways to get into debt, than there are to get out of it. It is always the ones who talk loudest who do the least. It is amazing how many people want to live a long life, and yet so few want to grow old. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. (Michael Arlen) It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards. (C.H. Spurgeon) It is a poor workman who blames his tools. It is a small world, but I wouldn't like to have to paint it. It is as necessary for men to hear the Gospel, as it was for Christ to die. It is better to be 5 minutes late than dead for 5 minutes. (John Leighton) It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. (Mark Twain) It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville) It is better to forget and smile, than to remember and be sad. It is better to have bad breath than to have no breath at all. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. It is better to live day by day for you might not be here tomorrow. It is better to regret something you did, rather than to regret something you didn't do. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it. It is better to sleep on what you intend doing than to stay awake over what you've done. It is difficult to "go with the flow" when you are swimming upstream. It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. It is easy to be flexible when one is spineless! It is easy to have a balanced personality. Just forget your troubles as easily as you do your blessings. It is far better to be alone, than to wish you were. It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. It is funny how we can see this outside world using our eyes; and we can see
someone's inside world looking into their eyes. It is good to be a Christian and you know it, but it is better to be a Christian and show it! It is hard to face the problem, when the problem is your face. It is hard to read a cartoon aloud. It is hard to stumble when you're on your knees. It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial charges and blamed it on the cost of living. It is important to stay cool, but be sure to not get frostbite. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. (Epictetus)
It is impossible to overestimate the immense need that humans have to be listened to, understood, and taken seriously. It is my hearts desire that I must be no more, that He be known more. (Saheed B. Olalekan) It is never easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. It is not against the law to be stupid, but it is stupid to be against the law. It is not always easy to.... apologize begin over take advise be unselfish keep trying be considerate think and then act profit by mistakes forgive and forget .... but it usually pays. (Richard Hamilton) It is not always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself. It is not a war on drugs; it's a war on people. It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy- the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. (Mother Teresa) It is not, how much you know...It is making the best use of what you know ! It is not raining. The sky leaks. It is not 'seeing' the light that impacts one's life; it is never 'ceasing' to see the light that impresses one's life, spirit, heart and soul. (Diane Lahaie) It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. (Matthew Henry) It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions. (Tony Robbins) It is not the difference between people that is the difficulty; it is the indifference. It is not the employer who pays wages- he only handles the money...It is the product that pays wages. It is not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it. (Lena Horne) It is not the people who tell all they know that cause most of the trouble in the world- it's the ones who tell more. It is not the relation which is important, but the relationship that is
important! It is not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. It is not the speaker who controls communication, but the listener. It is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that count. (Adlai Stevenson) It is not what a teenager knows that worries his parents. It's how he found out. It is not what's right about war, it's about what's left. It is not what they say about you, it's what they whisper. It is not what you are that holds you back, it is what you think you are not. (Denis Waitley) It is not what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. (Dale Carnegie) It is not what you would do with your millions should riches ness be your lot. It is what you are doing at present with the dollar and quarter you've got. It is not your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it's your disposition. It is OK to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is our responsibility, not ourselves that we should take seriously. It is seldom easy to do what's right or right to do what's easy. It is strange how an earthquake 4,000 miles away seems less of a catastrophe than the first scratch on your new car. It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything. (Rene Coty) It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with the pearl. It is time to quit playing church and start being the church. (Keith Green) It is when we forget ourselves that we do things that are most likely to be remembered. It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces. (Samuel Chadwick) It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. (Zig Zigler) It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose It takes less time to do the thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. It takes more money to amuse todays children than it took to educate their parents. It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. It was all so different before everything changed. I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost.
I used to be Snow White...but I drifted. (Mae West) I used to cry for I had no shoes to wear until I saw a man with no feet. I used to have a photographic memory, but it was never developed.... I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity. (Sharon Stone) I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity. (John Wesley) I've learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that
no one will believe it. I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened. (Mark Twain) I've to say NO to the good so I can say YES to the best. I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather ... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car ... I was going to waste, but Jesus recycled me. I was regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly God was speaking: "My name is I am." I waited and God continued: "When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I was." "When you live in the future, with its problems and fears, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I will be." "When you live in this moment, it is not hard. I am here. My name is I am." (Helen Mellincost) I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. (Woody Allen) I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way. (Jayson Feinburg) I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time." So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio, I think "Hey, maybe I wrote that." Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?" Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. (Lee Venden) Jesus did not come to make God's love possible, but to make God's love visible. Jesus is the man God intended all humans to be. (D.L. Dykes) Jesus paid a debt he didn't owe because we had a debt we couldn't pay. Joe was in court charged with parking his car in a restricted area. The judge asked him if he had anything to say in his defense. "They should not put up such misleading notices", said Joe. "It said, FINE FOR PARKING HERE." Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. Just as children bring their broken toys for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God because he was my friend. Instead of leaving him in peace to work alone, I stuck around and tried to help with ways that were my own. At last I snatched them back and cried "how could you be so slow?" "My child", he said, "What could I do, you never did let go". Just as war is more the absence of love than the presence of hate, and darkness is the absence of light, a negative attitude is the absence of a positive one. Just because a person grows older, it doesn't mean he necessarily grows up. Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is. "Just think, children," said the missionary, "in Africa there are six million square miles where little boys and girls have no Sunday School. Now, what should we all strive to save money for?" "To go to Africa!" Just when I was getting used to yesterday along came today.
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