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Ulcers are caused not so much by what we eat as what's eating us.
Ulcers are something you get from mountain climbing over molehills.
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under socialism it's just the opposite. (Anon)
Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean which defies resistance. (E. M. Bounds)
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. (Ronald E. Osborn)
Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Utility is when you have one telephone,
luxury is when you have two,
and paradise is when you have none.
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
Vacation spots that are out of the way,
Are much in favor with travelers today;
Some find them by planning trips at great cost,
And others just by getting lost.
Veni, Vidi, Visa:
I Came. I Saw. I Shopped.
Victor Borge told a friend that he could tell time by his piano. His friend was incredulous, so Borge volunteered to demonstrate. He pounded out a crashing march. Immediately there came a banging on the wall and a shrill voice screamed, "Stop that noise. Don't you know it's 1:30 in the morning?"
Victory begins with the name of Jesus on our lips, but it will not be consummated until the nature of Jesus is in our hearts.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Never let your morals stop you from doing what is right. (Isaac Asimov)
Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be.
Vision that looks inward becomes duty.
Vision that looks outward becomes aspiration.
Vision that looks upward becomes faith
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. (Japanese proverb)
Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk.
War never decides who is right, only who is left.
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny!!!
We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads. (Vlade Divac)
We all live under the same sky, but we don't see the same horizon.
Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom.
We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other. (Luciano DeCrescenzo)
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. (Oswald Chambers)
We are never nowhere.
We are always now here.
We blame fate for other accidents, but we feel personally responsible when we make a hole in one.
We buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't know. (Dr. Larry Lea)
We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. (Michel de Montaigne)
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
We can only create what we can imagine. (Robert B. Mackay)
We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
We can't control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. (La Rochefoucauld)
We could accomplish a lot more if we'd get rid of our ifs and and's; and get off our butts.
We could all take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colours.
But they all have to learn to live in the same box.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves- regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
We don't have the right to ask when sorrow comes: Why did this happen to me?, unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
We don't want a thing because we have found a reason for it- we find a reason for it because we want it.
We do three kinds of jobs, cheap, quick, and good.
You can have any two:
A good, quick job-won't be cheap.
A good job, cheap-won't be quick.
A cheap job, quick-won't be good.
We do what we believe, the rest is just a bunch of religious talk.
We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. (University of Cambridge Professor Robert Silensky)
We have all heard that there are two sides to every story, but after listening to many husband and wife arguments I have come to realize there are three sides to every story, her side, his side, and the truth.
We have a strange and wonderful relationship: He's strange and I'm wonderful. (Mike Ditka, on Jim McMahon)
We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. (Ancient Proverb)
We have stopped being fishers of men and we are now the keepers of the aquarium.
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers,
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints,
We spend more but have less,
We buy more but enjoy it less.
We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions.
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin)
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. (G. K. Chesterton)
We may not be what we want to be, but thank God we are not what we used to be. (Tim Storey)
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King)
We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin, 1776)
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown. (William Booth)
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to find a place where we can be alone. (St Teresa of Avila)
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. (French proverb)
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. (Bryan White)
We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
We often fear being rejected so very much that we reject ourselves first before anyone else has the chance.
We often see further through a tear, than through a telescope.
We only grow when we step outside our comfort zone.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. (Mother Teresa)
We see things not as they are, but as we are.
We should keep so close to the facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. (F. Marion Smith)
We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys. (Charles Swindoll)
We spent our whole youth to obtain wealth and our whole wealth to obtain youth.
We take risks not to escape life but to prevent that live escapes us.
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, have been asked to do so much with so little for so long that we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk.
We want to have a testimony, but we don't want the test.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
What a dog I got. His favourite bone is in my arm!
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. (Liz Carpenter)
"What are you doing?" a man asked of three laborers beside a building under construction.
The first man replied, "Stone-cuttin."
The second smiled, "Putting in time until a better job comes along."
The third man waited a moment and then said simply, "I m building a cathedral."
What boys say to girls.
  • Did it hurt? ("Did what hurt?") When you fell out of heaven.
  • Did you know they changed the alphabet? They put U and I together.
  • Can I borrow that quarter? Because my mom told me to call home when I fell in love.
  • What's wrong? You're looking a little sad and gloomy. What you need is some vitamin me.
  • Are your legs tired? Because you been running through my mind ALL day long.
  • Are you lost? Because it's so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.
  • What's that in your eye? Oh...it's a sparkle.
  • Can I see that label? I just wanted to know if you were made in heaven.
  • Could I get some directions? ("To where?") To your heart.
  • I wish I was one of your tears, so I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek, and die on your lips.
What do Windows and a handgun have in common?
Both are harmless while not loaded.
Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now.. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. (Goethe)
What flowers grow between your nose and your chin? .... Tulips.
"What, giving again?" I asked in dismay.
"And must I keep giving and giving away?"
"Oh, no," said the angel, piercing me through,
"Just give till the Father stops giving to you."
What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. (Hugh Mulligan)
What is done now, is influenced by what you did then, and will determine what you do when now is then.
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
What is the difference between a happy husband and a jilted lover?
One kisses his missus, and, the other misses the kisses.
What is the difference between a Peeping Tom and someone who's just got out of the bath?
One is rude and nosy, and the other's nude and rosy.
What is the most important thing to learn in chemistry?
Never lick the spoon.
What is worth having is worth waiting for.
What lies behind ourselves and what lies ahead of ourselves are small matters compared to what lies within ourselves. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What now is proved was once only imagined. (William Blake)
What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
What really matters is what happens in us- not to us.
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living, is really the cost of living high.
What sunshine is to flowers...smiles are to humanity.
What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity. (Russell Crowe, Gladiator)
What we fight against defines us as clearly as all we embrace.
What we see is mainly what we look for.
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
What you do when you don't have to do it will determine what you are when it's too late to do anything about it!
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.


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