Wonderful Phrases of Wisdom (Please add some of your own)

1. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.

2. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

4. No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

5. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

6. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

7. Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

A few of my favorites...

The truth will stand when the worlds on fire.

Still waters run deep.

Beauty's only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

You only have what you give to others.

Preach always, and if neccesary use words.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Here's a few I had compiled over the years:

• Jesus Christ IS the wisdom of God – 1 Corinthians 1:24

• Financial Words
o When it’s a great deal is not the time to purchase. When it’s a great deal, fits in the family budget, and is clearly the next family-priority is the time to purchase.
o It doesn’t take faith to borrow money. It takes faith to tell yourself no, and wait until you can pay cash from what you’ve earned or been given.

• Edifying words for the inner man
o There is no peace in should, would, or could. Peace is only in what is.
o Your greatest enemy is neither the devil nor any person; it’s your carnal mind and lustful flesh.
o Your ability to be free is directly related-to and proportional-to your ability to be brutally honest with yourself about your own heart-motives.

• General words of insight
o Many times, it’s not a matter of whether something is right or wrong; but it’s a matter of whether or not it is the right time or not.
o Knowledge is the “how & what”, wisdom is the “why, when, & who”.
o Knowledge crosses the bridge to wisdom when the topic advances from things to people.
o Your habitual behaviors are the key ingredient to your level of productivity or destructivity.
o Pressure reveals the harvest.
o With every choice there are 2 paths; one leading to life and freedom, and one leading to death and bondage. Wisdom is knowing the difference at the trailhead, and power is being able to choose the path of life and freedom.
o Vision gives purpose to pain

• Words on Love
o The ultimate freedom is the freedom to love unconditionally.
o The amount of self-love in one’s love-of-others is directly proportionate to the level of unconditionality of that one’s love.
o The level of your ability to love is directly proportionate to your ability to tell yourself no.
o The foundation of love is self sacrifice.
o Love without sacrificial action is mere sentimentality.

Here's a few more...

Show me, don't snow me (when someone is all talk but no action)

That one goes along with "all hat, no cattle"

Pressure can turn coal into a diamond or into dust, it is all in how it handles the pressure

He who laughs last, thinks slowest

The biggest liar you'll ever have to deal with watches you shave in the mirror every day

Now for something more serious.....

A word of advice, always end your converstations with your wife, kids and those you love by saying "I love you." One day you won't be able to say that again because you or they will be gone. What do you want the last words to be that those you love get to hear from you? I hope the very last thing my wife or daughter ever hears from my lips is "I love you." It sounds corny, but it rings true in my heart and I just wanted to share.

"You can sleep when you're dead"

According to Norm of "Cheers"

It's a dog eat dog world and I am wearing milk bone underwear

Posted By: carrollersChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Sometimes we can be so anxious to provide our children with what we did not get in our childhood, that we might forget to give them what we did get.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Well said!

Heard this one at church the other day....

People may not be looking for God, but they are looking for what He offers

The point being made is that people are searching for peace, compassion, love, the concern of others and so on. The only place they will find all of that is God, and because of that we should always be ready to give an answer for the hope that abides in each of us.

2nd place is just the first loser

I got tired of waiting for my ship to come in, so I took a rowboat out to meet it. Now I am lost at sea.

While we we're running sprints and were tired, my old baseball coach used to say "you won't die... you'll pass out first!" and then when we'd say we were thirsty he'd say... "lick your sweat!". Wow.. thanks that always took care of the thirst...