Silver Nuggets

                         A wagon load of wit and wisdom mined from various sources. 
              A collection of my favorite quotations, one liners, puns and points to ponder.

"Adversity is God's university!"

"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. How much will you be missed?"

"We set the sail, God makes the wind."

"Worry is the dark room where negatives are developed."

"Laughter is life's shock absorber."

"The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep scratching."

"He who throws dirt loses ground."

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict; peace is the presence of God in the midst of the conflict."

"Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb...that's where the fruit is!"

"Don't lose hope, remember, Moses was a basket case once."

"The rapture will be the real separation of church and state."

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."
- John Wesley

"Where you go hereafter depends on what you go after here."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Take care of your life and God will take care of your death."
- George Whitefield

"Work as if everything depends on you, and pray as if everything depends on God."

"Attempt great things for God and expect great things from God."
- William Carey

"Prayer moves the hand that moves the world."
- John Wallace

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible."

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are made for."

"Some people sow wild oats all week then show up at church on Sunday to pray for crop failure."

"Forbidden fruit creates many jams."

"The best vitamin for a Christian is B1."

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

"Unless you do something beyond what you've already mastered, you'll never grow."

"Everything that can be invented already has been..."
- U.S. Patent office, 1899

"Fear keeps you up all night, but faith makes a fine pillow."

"Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites and two woodpeckers."

"Always use the word impossible with the greatest of caution."
- Wenher Von Braun

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

     "The sea is a dangerous place and its storms terrible,
but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore."
- Ferdinand Magellan, explorer

   "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
- George Washington

   "I have been driven many times to my knees by the
overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Your teeth may be false, but let your tongue be true."

"Revivals don't last! Neither does a bath, but it sure helps."
- Billy Sunday

"The key to marriage is the key to automobiles...stick with one model."
- Henry Ford

"Hot heads and cold hearts never solve anything."
- Billy Graham

"A clear conscience is a continuous Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin

"A happy family is an early heaven."

"Love reduces friction to a fraction."

"Faults are thick where love is thin."

"A hypocrite is a person who isn't himself on Sundays."

"He who dies with the most toys, still dies."

             "Worry is a futile thing, much like a rocking chair,
although it occupies your time, it doesn't get you anywhere."

"Give God what is right, not what is left!"

"If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, their water bill is probably higher."

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."

"Despite the high cost of living, it's still quite popular."

"If you don't know where you're going, you could wind up someplace else."
- Yogi Bearra

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but TODAY is a gift from God."

Bitterness is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will drop dead!