Quotes

I've still got more buried in a Powerpoint document.

That's awesome. xD I need to get better about writing them down.

I enjoy reading them. So I've started writing down all the good ones.

Yeah, I have a few written down, but a lot of the time I think "Oh, that's a good quote. I'll write it down later." And then can never find it again. xD

I have a huge book of quotes sitting open on my desk. "7,700 Illustrations" I just finished the Speaker's Quote Book.

“What’s the safest place in which to hide anything very important? Somewhere where everybody has already looked.” Alan Alexander Milne;
News Reporter: “How does it feel to have the whole football team on your shoulders?” Tony: “Heavy.” Woodlawn; Erwin Brothers
“Just one more question before this floor falls through.” “What is it?” “Why is it always me?” Jonathan Park,
“Ability is something we produce ourselves.” Suzuki
“Practice smart, bring your brain.” Unknown
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.” John Wooden
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.” Unknown
“Never test the depth of the water with both feet.” Unknown
“On a line or on a space
Tells you where your fingers place.
Black or white, flag or stem
Tells you how long to hold them.” Unknown
“Half the world knows not how the other half lives.” George Herbert
“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the devil builds a chapel hard by.” George Herbert
“None knows the weight of another’s burden.” George Herbert
“Wars are not “acts of God.” They are caused by man, by man-made institution, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.” Fred M. Vinson
“Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.” John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
“War never slays a bad man in its course, but the good always.” Sophocles

"Most of mans inventions have been time-savers - then came the television." Joe Ryan;

“Anger is just one letter short of danger.” John Haggai
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” Seneca
“Keep your temper; nobody else wants it.” Aristotle
“An apology is the super glue of life. It can repair just about anything.” Synn Johnston

“You cannot get a cup of tea, or a book big enough to satisfy me.” Mark Twain;

I've seen this attributed to C.S. Lewis too…who actually said it?

I don't know. I've seen it both ways. But I think it sounds more like something Mark Twain would say.

“Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. The trust part comes later.” Superman

From my electric piano's warranty: "This warranty does not cover…damages attributable to power line surge or related electrical abnormalities, lightning damage or acts of God".

From my electric piano's warranty: "This warranty does not cover…damages attributable to power line surge or related electrical abnormalities, lightning damage or acts of God". :P

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon;
“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon;
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.” Zig Ziglar
“Stickability is 95% of ability.” David J. Schwartz
“All are presumed good till they are found in fault.” George Herbert
“Woe be to him who reads but one book.” George Herbert
“Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it’s usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?” Christopher Morley

“The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. “ Charles Wesley

“At any given moment, the most important thing in life is the person standing in front of us.” Richard A. Swenson,
“The root cause of all social disharmony is selfishness. “ Tim LaHaye & David Noebel,
"There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner." Barbara Woodhouse, Dog Training My Way
“Honor – Treating people as special, Doing More than is expected, and having a good attitude.” Jeff Myers
“Build a bridge and get over it.” Sarah H
“Guide, don’t give.” Sarah H
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Unknown
“Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.” Unknown

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.” Aeschylus

This is one of my favorite quotes.
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.“ Sam Ewing

"A dangling preposition is something up with which I will not put." -Winston Churchill

If Winston Churchill had accomplished nothing else, I think I would still like him just for this quote. xP

I use that one when someone accuses me of dangling prepositions.

“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Abraham Lincoln
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” C.S. Lewis
"Before we can pray, 'Lord, Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray, 'My Kingdom go.' " Alan Redpath
"What good is having someone walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps?“ Unknown
"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." Robert C. Shannon
"If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small." Pat Morley
"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" Hudson Taylor

“I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly” George Farquhar

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be; but, by the grace of God, I am not what I was.” John Newton
“Use the talents you possess. The woods would be silent if only the birds sang that sing the best.” Unknown
“The teacher can light the lantern and put it in your hand, but you must walk into the dark.” William H. Armstrong
“It’s a strange life. You can skate on thin ice and end up in hot water.” Unknown
“No matter what a man’s past may have been, his future is spotless.” John R. Rice
“The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.” Unknown

“The statistics on death are quite impressive. One out of one people die.” George Bernard Shaw

"If you don't have any battles you won't have any victories." Arnold Pent III
“It is easier to suffer in silence if you are sure someone is watching.” Warren
“Give me my imagination and I can be happy in a prison.” Sir Walter Scott
“There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say 'what happened?” Robert T. Kiyosaki
"I'm no match for the giant, but he is no match for my God." David Gibbs Jr.
"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us." Martian Luther.
"God isn't impressed with how much scripture we know, but with how much scripture we live." Arnold Pent III
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." Mark Twain
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.“ A. A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh“
“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…” C.S. Lewis
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” C.S. Lewis

"We're too young to know that certain things are impossible, so we do them anyway." -William Pitts

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein
"Before God we are all equally wise—and all equally foolish.“ Albert Einstein
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” Aesop
“Politics is the science of how who get what, when and why.” Sidney Hillman
“Love me, Love my cat.” Paraphrased by me, stolen from John Heywood Original: "Love me, Love my dog."

"I am not surprised that God did not save all men. I am surprised that God saved some." Charles Spurgeon

“War is cruel and you cannot refine it.” William Tecumseh Sherman

“War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman

“That treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.” John Ruskin

“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” John Ruskin

“The enemies of the Future are always the very nicest people.” Christopher Morley

“Blessings love disguise.” Samuel Hoffenstein

“Ladies just a little more virginity, if you don’t mind.” Alexander Woollcott

“There is no indispensable man.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer.” William Shakespeare

“I have no other but a woman’s reason: I think so, because I think him so.” William Shakespeare

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” William Shakespeare

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being 7 ages. At first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school. And then the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard; jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, in fair round belly with good capon lined, with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances; and so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper’d pantaloons, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness, and more oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” William Shakespeare

“A string may jar in the best master’s hand, and the most skillful archer miss his aim.” Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon
“And choose an author as you choose a friend.” Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon
“Music is the thing of the world that I love most.” Samuel Pepys
“May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift
“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.” Alexander Pope

“Sometimes you can judge a man’s ambition by whether he hates his alarm clock or considers it his best friend.” William Jewett
“Speak when you are angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” Henry Ward Beecher
“Someone said to a Scotsman, “My, you have a temper.” The Scotsman replied, “Man, you don’t know how much I’m holding back.” John Haggai
“In a small west Texas town, there were three churches in one block: Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian. On Sunday evenings they had the windows open. One evening the Methodists sang, “Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown?” The Baptist heard it and sang, “No Not One.” The Presbyterians sang, “Oh, That Will Be Glory for Me.” Bits & Pieces
“Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.” Teen Esteem
“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
“How did you get that bump on your head?” a man asked his friend. “Well, there was this sign over the entrance of a building I was about to enter, and since I’m nearsighted, I stepped closer to read it.” “And what did it say?” “’Caution – door swings out.’” Philip Lazarus
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain
“Youngster looking around his tidy, immaculate bedroom, “Okay! Who’s been messing around in my room?” Unknown
“If evil be said of thee and it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.” Epictetus
“See the invisible; believe the incredible; do the impossible.” Vernon Grounds
“Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.” Unknown

"An eye for an eye just makes the whole world blind." Gandhi

“Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I hope to meet my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar.” Lord Tennyson Alfred
“Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.” William Makepeace Thackeray
“I began to like this man. He answered your questions briefly and to the point, and never tried to be funny. I felt I could be confidential with him.” Kenneth Grahame
“To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.” John Luther Long
“’Name your favorite writer’ should be the first question in the Engagement Catechism.” Richard Le Gallienne
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side.” Mark Twain
“People who make no noise are dangerous.” Jean De La Fontaine
“Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.” Francois M. A. Voltaire
“You can’t rid yourself of a bad temper by losing it.” Soundings
“Hiring people smarter than you proves you’re smarter than they are.” Bits & Pieces
“A father is a man who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic.” Unknown
“A hobby is something you go wild about to keep you from going crazy.” Unknown
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
“Just about time you think you can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” Penny Penner
“When Goliath went to the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, “He’s so big, we can never kill him.” But David looked at him and thought, “He’s so big, I can’t miss.” Unknown
“War doesn’t determine only whose right – but whose left.” Bertrand Russell
"Keep your temper, no one else wants it." Unknown

“I may not always be right, but I’m never wrong.” Sam Goldwyn
“A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.” Voltaire
“Blessed are the ignorant for they never have doubts.” Joseph Renan
“Drive so that your driver’s license expires before you do.” F. G. Kernam
“Lord, let me live until I’m dead.” Will Rogers
“Life with Christ is an endless hope; without Him, a hopeless end.” Robert C. Shannon
“We’ve drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.” Paul Harvey
“Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related, and rightly interpreted.” R. L. Long
“Knowing how to benefit from failure is the key to success.” Zig Ziglar
“The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.” Charles F. Kettering
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius
“Falling down doesn’t make you a failure, but staying down does.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Failure is merely an opportunity to start over again, wiser than before.” Unknown
“When you’re afraid, keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared, you will not be afraid.” Dale Carnegie

“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.” Jean Baptiste Moliere
“A woman always has her revenge ready.” Jean Baptiste Moliere
“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.” Jean De La Bruyere
“A little bird I am, shut from the fields of air; and in my cage I sit and sing to Him who placed me there; well pleased a prisoner to be, because, my God, it pleases Thee.” Jeanne Guyon
"I would apologize but it wouldn't be worth my while." Rosalina Cassandra III
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Fate makes our relatives, choice makes our friends.” Jacques Delille
“The most useless day of all is that in which we have not laughed.” Sebastien R. N. Chamfort
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” Jonathan Winters
“The Bible is the only news book in the world. The newspaper tells us what has taken place, but this book tells us what will take place.” Dwight L. Moody

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” William James
“A woman said, “I may tremble on the Rock, but the Rock never trembles under me.” Unknown
“Friedrich Nietzsche was the first “God is dead” theorist. Time magazine once concluded an article on him with these poignant lines: God Is Dead. (Signed) Nietzsche. Nietzsche Is Dead. (Signed) God.” Unknown (Just imagine God going "ohh, BURN!" LOL)
“England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.” Victor Hugo
“The secret to enjoying your life is to count your blessings not your birthdays.” Confucius
“A true friend is someone who always remembers your birthday, but forgets your age.” Confucius
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Ellen Parr

“Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.” Norwegian proverb
“Plagiarism is taking something from one man and making it worse.” George Moore
“A test of faith is whether you are surprised when your prayers are answered.” Unknown
“A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.” Henry Longfellow
Father to teenage son: “Mind if I use your car tonight? I’m taking mom out and I’d like to impress her!”
“What we love to do we find time to do.” John Spaulding
“Never be afraid to state the obvious. It is what most people have forgotten.” William H. Ralston
“God calls us to get in the game, not to keep score.” Raymond McHenry
“Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while other stay awake and do them.” Raymond McHenry
“Some wish to live within the sound of a church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.” C.T. Shedd
“Faith is the refusal to panic.” Martin Lloyd-Jones
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” Raymond McHenry
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive.” C.S. Lewis
“A mother can get her children’s complete attention just by sitting down and looking comfortable.” Sam Ewing

“You can always tell a real friend; when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” Lawrence J. Peter
“Treat your friends like family, and your family like friends.” Lilian Whiting
“To get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain
“If you really want to know who your friends are, just make a mistake.” The Bible Friend
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill

“One who is interested in proving that there is no hell generally has a personal reason for doing so.” Unknown
“When there is room in the heart, there is room in the house.” Danish proverb
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not a idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo
“The flag flown from the castle of the heart is to show that the King is in residence there.” Unknown
“Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand.” Seneca
“Loneliness is the first thing God’s eye named not good.” John Milton

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” Thomas Jefferson
"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." Amy Carmichael
"I don't suffer from insanity. I love every minute of it!" 101 World's Funniest One Liners
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
“Never speak loudly to one another unless the house is on fire.” Harold William Thompson
“The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.” Alexander Smith

“Time as he grows old teaches many lesson.” Aeschylus
“Wine is wont to show the mind of man.” Theognis
“There was a little girl,
who had a little curl,
right in the middle of her forehead.
And when she was good,
she was very, very good,
but when she was bad
she was horrid.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Hard is his heart that loves not in May.” Geoffrey Chaucer
“I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.” John Wycliffe
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” Thomas A Kempis

“If you’re going to pray, don’t worry; If you’re going to worry, don’t pray.” Jamaican proverb

“One of the surest ways to discover how many friends you have is to rent a cottage at the beach.” Unknown
“Set your goal high. You may not reach it, but you’ll put on muscle climbing toward it.” Unknown
“The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.” F. B. Meyer
“When you have nothing left but God you become aware that He is enough.” Unknown
“The things that go in one ear and out the other do not hurt as much as things that go in one ear, get all mixed up, and then slip out of the mouth.” Unknown
“Get on your knees and thank God you’re on your feet.” Irish proverb
“I know not the way He leads me, but well do I know my Guide.” Martin Luther

This is for Matthew "Good music, when you hear it in the morning is a force that makes you want to sing. And when you sing you feel as if nothing can keep you down. So when you wake up, listen to music, and you will feel the power behind it. People can do the greatest things if they wake up in the morning with a song on their lips and in their hearts." Unknown

I recently watched the Torchlighters DVD on John Wesley, and the first quote I put was at the end of the DVD, so I looked up a bunch of his quotes. :)

"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, With all the zeal you can, As long as ever you can."
"Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn."
“When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.”
“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can”
“Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.”
“Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees”
(uh oh. This one really applies to me:P) “Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge”
“Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry”
They're all John Wesley quotes.

I like all of those quotes! I love quotes… As you can tell…

Yeah. That was kind of obvious. xD

I still have more… Some are still buried under years and years of sarcasm.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“If they can take it, I can.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.” Virginia Woolf
“Man proposes, but God disposes.” Thomas A Kempis
“That to live by one man’s will became the cause of all men’s misery.” Richard Hooker
“A Rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.” John Lyly
“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.” George Chapman

“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Her hair shall be what color it please God.” William Shakespeare
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare
“It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.” William Shakespeare
“Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge that no king can corrupt.” William Shakespeare
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” William Shakespeare
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon
“Death borders upon out birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.” Joseph Hall
“I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.” Robert Burton
“Heaven-gates are not do highly arch’d as princes’ palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.” John Webster