IT WEARS WELL The Roman emperor Vespasian is still famous for his saying that money does not smell. Oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, who built the imitation of a Roman emperor's villa in Malibu, California,…
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EFFICIENT OR HUMAN I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. -- Felix Frankfurter
JACK BENNY ON SCOUTING A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like shmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. -- Jack Benny
TELEVISION VALUES Producer Larry Thompson: "I gave the networks a TV movie on Mother Teresa. But they told me that was too soft. So I sold them Centerfolds in Centerfield, a script about a women's…
REPENTANCE & TALK A man often repents that he has spoken, but seldom that he has held his tongue. -- Dr. Thomas Fuller
SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE Did you see the photographs which the Hubble Space Telescope took recently of outer space. Just last December they focused the space telescope on a very small spot in the sky,…
WISER TODAY A person should never be ashamed to own (say) that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope
ENOUGH SAID A young country fellow was walking with his girl on a moonlit night. He was overcome with the romance of the moment, and he blurted out, "Honey, I love you so much. Will…
SISTINE RISK If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. -- Neil Simon, playwright
IMAGINATION & HUMOR We all get two gifts we should use as much as possible -- imagination and humor. Imagination compensates us for what we are not. A sense of humor consoles us for what…
NO PERSONALITY The actor Peter Sellers once said he lacked a personality of his own. "As far as I'm aware, I'm nothing," he once said. "I have no personality of my own whatsoever. I have…
WAG A DOG'S TAIL Money will buy a fine dog, but love will make him wag his tail. -- Japanese Proverb
AGE FIVE MATURITY To become really mature is to return to the age of five, to be able to recapture the capacity for absorption, for learning, to recapture the tremendous hunger to master skills that…
DESTINATION SICKNESS Many people today are suffering from what someone has well called "destination sickness", the malady of having everything you've always wanted to have, but not wanting anything you've gotten. You've arrived, but you…
WHAT GOD CAN DO A young boy, going to see his grandfather, was traveling by train, took a seat beside a man who happened to be a seminary professor. The young boy was reading a…
WEDDING RING CHANGES The wedding ring is that small piece of jewelry placed on the finger that cuts off your circulation.
PIG IN THE PARLOR As the old proverb puts it, you can bring a pig into the parlor, but that doesn't change the pig -- though it certainly changes the parlor!
WHO ELSE? The candidate had just finished what he felt was a stirring campaign speech. "Now are there any questions?" He asked confidently. "Yes," said a voice in the rear. "Who else is running?"
SHOVELING FOR A HORSE There are two rooms -- one full of brand new toys, the other full of hay and horse manure. Two children are taken into them, one a pessimist, the other an…
LOVE THE LOST The Pharisees had not even considered that God might actually LOVE the lost; that God might actually care about every one of us despite the fact that we ARE lost. And we…
