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Pithy Sayings
« Thread Started on Sept 10, 2012, 9:09am »

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

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« Reply #1 on Oct 10, 2012, 5:28am »

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

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« Reply #2 on Oct 29, 2012, 11:29am »

“If a generation arises that doesn’t understand liberty as. . .’the habit of the heart’, then freedom is in danger of dying.”

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« Reply #3 on Nov 2, 2012, 11:05am »

The greatest worldly need of youth is money, of middle age time and of old age energy.

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #4 on Nov 7, 2012, 7:04pm »

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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”

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« Reply #5 on Nov 9, 2012, 6:47pm »

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be

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« Reply #6 on Nov 20, 2012, 3:44pm »

You know childhood is over when a puddle seems like an obstacle instead of an opportunity.

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« Reply #7 on Nov 22, 2012, 2:07pm »

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

~~~ Anonymous

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #8 on Nov 22, 2012, 5:23pm »

I dream of a society where a chicken can cross the road without its motives questioned.

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #9 on Dec 5, 2012, 10:59am »

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

~~ Yiddish proverb

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #10 on Dec 30, 2012, 11:41am »

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

~~ St Therese of Lisieux

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #11 on Dec 30, 2012, 11:44am »

Occupy your minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Unoccupied, they cannot be.

~~ St Thomas More

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #12 on Dec 30, 2012, 11:45am »

By giving yourself to God, you not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

~~ St Francis de Sales

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #13 on Dec 30, 2012, 11:46am »

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer, they protest that it is too long.

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #14 on Dec 30, 2012, 11:47am »

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

~~ Blessed Robert Southwell

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #15 on Jan 16, 2013, 8:24am »

"Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

~~ Max Frisch

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #16 on Jan 28, 2013, 11:36pm »

H/T Booker Rising:
http://www.bookerrising.net/2013/01/128-quote-of-day-no-tragedy.html

"But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all but about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

~~ Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), libertarian Republican anthropologist and author. Ms. Hurston died on January 28, 1960

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #17 on Feb 2, 2013, 9:37pm »

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore – on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him ‘meek and mile,’ and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.”

~~Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957), renowned English crime writer, poet, play-write, essayist, translator, and Christian. She is best known for her mysteries, novels and short stories.

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #18 on Mar 6, 2013, 9:29pm »

H/T Rusty Bill at Grouchy Conservative Pundits
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.or....cseen#msg421585

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

~~ Samuel Adams

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #19 on Mar 6, 2013, 9:38pm »

H/T Rayra at Grouchy Conservative Pundits
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.or....cseen#msg421585

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If you will not fight for right
when you can easily win
without blood shed;
if you will not fight
when your victory is sure
and not too costly;
you may come to the moment
when you will have to fight
with all the odds against you
and only a precarious chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case.
You may have to fight
when there is no hope of victory,
because it is better to perish
than to live as slaves.

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #20 on Mar 11, 2013, 12:12pm »

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise --- specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

~~ Allan Bloom

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #21 on Mar 21, 2013, 8:15am »

Today, I saw that my ironing board cover was wrinkled. I laughed at the irony. Then I laughed again because irony has the word iron in it.

~~ Unknown

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Re: Pithy Sayings
« Reply #22 on Jun 16, 2013, 4:59pm »

Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people.

~~ William A. Ward

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