Spam Wisdom IV

There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!"

Art is a form of catharsis.

For economists the real world is often a special case.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

People who know the least always argue the most.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Spam Wisdom III

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Imagination and Hope: the same thing?

We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope.

--John Eldredge, Sacred Romance, 157

Spam Wisdom II

Someone actually takes the time to put these together before hitting the "spam" button:

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Grief is light that is capable of counsel.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.