Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

If wealth is lost nothing is lost.If health is lost something is lostIf character/reputation is lost everything is lost.

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. -Anita Roddick.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

A foursome of senior golfers hit the course with waning enthusiasm for the sport."These hills are getting steeper as the years go by," one complained."These fairways seem to be getting longer too," wheezed a second."And somehow, the sand traps seem to be bigger than I remember 'em too," said the third.Hearing just about enough from his buddies, the oldest, and the wisest of the foursome at 87-years-old, piped up and said, "Oh my friends, just be thankful we're still on THIS side of the grass!".

And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die.

I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable As the dog Jew did utter in the streets: 'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!'

There was a break at the prison yesterday. An ex-fortune teller, described as being short with dark hair, broke out of prison. The public is advised to be on the lookout for a small medium at large.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menicus.

Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?

hasn't got a pot to piss in (nor a window to throw it out).

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.

If we are walking in joy, we are trusting God.

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.