SACRED PAGES & ROCK OF AGES The more we read the sacred pages The better we know the Rock of Ages. Author Unknown
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CHIEF END OF GOD The historic church, in its role as embassy of a foreign kingdom, taught that the chief end of people is to glorify God and enjoy him forever; the modern church too…
LIGHT SED TRAVEL TROUBLES Technology is not all that its cracked up to be. For example, what happens when we all travel in space ships at the speed of light. When it gets dark in…
RMANENT PRESSED IRONS If we have really advanced so much, why do our irons still have a setting for "permanent pressed" garments?
SELF- DESTRUCTIVE REVENGE There is an ancient story of the Middle East about a scorpion who asked a tortoise to ferry him across the Nile River. The tortoise was hesitant. "You'll bite me and I'll…
MOZART NEVER HAD TO ASK A composer who was just beginning asked Mozart for advice on how to construct a symphony. Mozart suggested gently that a symphony was the most demanding of structures, and that…
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PARADOX Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or…
REASONS TO STUDY ECONOMICS 1. While ethics teaches that virtue is its own reward, economics teaches that reward is its own virtue. 2. Economists can supply upon demand. 3. You can talk about money without…
TRAPD IN AN ESCALATOR This was the worst excuse yet! The man's wife has heard some lame excuses in the past for his failure to return home at a reasonable time, but this was the…
GOOD FOR SOMETHING Be not simply good, be good for something. -- Thoreau The preceding four illustrations are from The Business Guide, 1891, edited by J. L Nichols
CICERO ON ECONOMY Economy is itself a great revenue. -- Cicero
FALLING & RISING Our greatest glory is not in never falling; but in rising every time we fall. -- Confucius
WORK IS NO CURSE Blest work, if ever thou wert a curse of God, what must His blessings be! -- J. B. Selkirk
LAWYER LIGHT BULBS How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? It takes just one lawyer to change your light bulb into his light bulb.
MARXIST LIGHT BULBS How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb? None; the bulb contains within it the seeds of its own revolution.
FROM DIFFERENT PREMISES First Philosopher: "Why can our arguments not be settled over the phone?" Second Philosopher: "Because we are arguing from different premises."
MAKE TIME You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. -- Charles Buxton
I CAN SEE! "I can see! I can see!" These were the first words from Jean Phillips after her twenty minute operation on October 24, 1996. She had lived sixty-six years in blindness. She had…
TYSON'S BITE OF THE CENTURY Mike Tyson bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during their boxing match in Las Vegas on June 28, 1997. When asked to comment on Tyson's action, Sylvester Stalone--the…
LONG-LOST RING Richard Metcalf was a 1972 graduate of Madison Comprehensive High School in Mansfield, Ohio. Richard lost his ring in 1975 with the initials RAM while dating a girl who lived in nearby apartments.…
