Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
~ Norman Cousins
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~ E. E. Cumming
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
-Cullen Hightower
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For where love is wanting, the beauty of all virtue is mere tinsel, is empty sound, is not worth a straw, nay more is offensive and disgusting.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
None will ever be a good minister of the Word of God unless
he is first of all a good scholar.
He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.
~ on Romans 5:18
Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
~ Sir John Harrington, in Epigrams, bk. iv, ep. 259
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Anatole France once said that it was not wise to lend books because no one ever returned them. He went on to say that the only books he had in his library were the books lent to him by others.
Tacitast melior mulier semper quam loquens. [A woman is always worth more seen than heard.]
~ in Rudens -1114
Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur, dum valet sentit sapit. [He whom the gods love dies young, while he has strength and senses and wits.
~ in Bacchides, -816
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud, and unapologetic.
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