REPAYMENT IN KIND One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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NO ROOM BUT COOKIES GALORE It was Christmas, and a little boy was asked to play the role of the innkeeper who turned away Mary and Joseph. "I won't!" he exclaimed, "because the man was…
WORTH THE WAIT Mamie Adams always went to a branch post office in her town because the postal employees there were friendly. She went there to buy stamps just before Christmas one year and the…
SORROW FOR FAULTS He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And if he will be so, he will lay them bare no further…
DECLINING INVITATIONS It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny. Publius Syrus
NO EXCEPTIONS "I'm very sorry," said the personnel manager, "but if I let you take two hours off for lunch today, I'd have to do the same for every other employee whose wife gave birth…
ARE YOU JESUS? Several years ago a group of salesman went to a regional sales meeting in Chicago. They assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for supper on Friday…
WAITING TO DO GOOD He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
THE KINDEST WORD The kindest word ever said is the unkind word that was never said.
YOUR BROTHER'S BOAT Help thy brother's boat across and lo! thine own will reach the shore. Provided by Steve Morrison, Tacoma, Washington
THE FRIENDSHIP ACCOUNT Friendship is like a bank account, you can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
WATCH THOSE WORDS The cowboy philosopher said: "Be careful of the words you say. Keep them soft and sweet. You never know from day to day, which ones you'll have to eat." Will Rogers.
WIT AND WISDOM Wisdom is a shield that protects; Wit is a sword that attacks.
PEOPLE ARE SUCH ANIMALS Recently Detroit's zoo added four new employees -- security guards, not to contain the animals, but to protect them from people. In the past two years they have had a baby…
WISE WORDS There are two very important expressions that'll keep your marriage bright; "I love you" and "Maybe you're right." From Systems Forms Brochure, January 1990
MEEKEST INHERITANCE In a recent Frank and Ernest by Thaves, you see two of the placard prophets walking down the street. The first is displaying a sign that says, "The meek shall inherit the earth."…
KINDNESS BETTER THAN INTELLIGENCE The Jewish thinker and theologian Abraham Heschel noted near the end of his life: "I used to admire intelligent people. As I grow older, I admire kind people."
KINDNESS SPOKEN Witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping off a broken string; but a word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain; it is a seed which, even when dropped by…
ALWAYS TIME FOR KINDNESS There may be times when you will be sorry about something you said; sorry that you stayed too late, or sorry that you went so early; sorry that you won something,…
SURE FOOTING ASSURED There was a tribe of Indians who lived a long time ago in the state of Mississippi. They lived next to a very swift and dangerous river. The current was so strong…
