For every complex problem, there is a simple answer--and it is wrong!
-Mark Twain
Honesty was the best policy
-Mark Twain
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
-Plato
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
-Albert Einstein
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. Dorothy Sarnoff
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live
sparingly need not be rich.
Ben Franklin
Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without
Marriage.
Ben Franklin
What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide,
With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite.
Ben Franklin
He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.
Ben Franklin
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more
bondage than too much liberty.
Ben Franklin
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden but it is forbidden
because it's hurtful. Nor is a Duty beneficial because it is
commanded, but it is commanded, because it's beneficial.
Ben Franklin
Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Ben Franklin
Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really
selling himself a Slave to it.
-Ben Franklin
If Man could have Half his Wishes, he would double his
Troubles.
-Ben Franklin
Success has ruin'd many a Man.
Ben Franklin
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the
Knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
Ben Franklin
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its
People one tenth Part of their _Time_, to be employed in its Service.
But _Idleness_ taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is
spent in absolute _Sloth_, or doing of nothing, with that which is
spent in idle Employments or Amusements, that amount to nothing.
_Sloth_, by bringing on Diseases, absolutely shortens Life. _Sloth,
like Rust, consumes faster than Labour wears, while the used Key is
always bright_, as _Poor Richard_ says
You can conquer the world using only 26 highly organised lead soldiers.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies....
Groucho marx
There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'
CS Lewis
Society always wants women to be the shape its hardest to achieve. in victorian times when good food was hard to come by the fashionable shape was well rounded, in many african countries where food is scarce fat people are considered beautiful. Now with an abundance of food not to mention mars bars, they want us to look like stick insects.
Since large sections of the gay world view the homosexual as a commodity and judge him by his cosmetic qualities, he soon begins to develop that same view of himself.
Martin Hoffman
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John K. Galbraith
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
For every person who climbs the ladder of success, there are a dozen waiting for the elevator.
- Unknown
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
- R.C. Sproul
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of
their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless
scrutiny of logic. - William E Gladstone
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
- Maier's Law
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.
- O.A. Battista
Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.
- The Defender
Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand.
- Mark Twain
I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.
- Saadi
My argument against God was that the universe seemed unjust. But how had I got the idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
- C.S. Lewis
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through revelation.
- Leo Tolstoy
There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source... you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
- C.S. Lewis
[As an atheist] I never noticed that the very strength of the pessimists' case poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
- C.S. Lewis
He will never get to heaven who desires to go there alone.
- Thomas Fuller
Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work.
- Changing Times
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I tell you that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone to whom he can hand over quickly that gift of freedom with which the unhappy creature is born. But only he who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom.
For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
-Fyodor dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov
The ethical question "whether something is permissable" faded in relation to the question "what is the main thing the essential thing?" The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance- a life defined by the question, "what is permissable?- felt almost disgusting to me. I Didn't want a minimal life. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
-John Piper Dont waste your life pg 14
C.s lewis made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Nothing is inferior for being old and nothing is valuable for being modern.
-John Piper Dont waste your life pg 19
