Better than a cloak

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Winter exercises

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain

As alert as the conscience

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people. - Charles W. Tobey

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Longing & waiting

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. - Karl Rahner

YESTERDAY'S FORGOTTEN QUOTE


To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.- Victor Hugo

Let's call it research

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. - Cynthia Nelms

With great love

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

Shine for all the world to see

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare

Hands down

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. - Tony Snow

A merry feast

Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.  -William Shakespeare

Not the end of the world kiddo

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Only sick

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. - George Burns

Only an intellectual

Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. - Thomas Sowell

Saving grace of humor

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. - A. Whitney Brown

Character dependent

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt

The Scheme of things

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius

Never lose it

Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein

Play better

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. - Albert Einstein

Fairy Tales matter

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. —Albert Einstein

The weekend

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. - Richard Nelson Bolles

Join a club

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. - Groucho Marx

Just the facts maam

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. - Marshall McLuhan

Neither saint nor scum

I ain’t such a saint that I can promise to risk my life for strangers. Neither am I scum enough to sit quietly by while people are getting hurt before my eyes. - Ichigo Kurasaki

Better things ahead

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C. S. Lewis

From one room to another & yesterday's missed quote

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. - Helen Keller



Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. - Edith Stein

Any road will do

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll

Don't be sad

Don't be sad, we shall meet again in Paradise. - St. Thomas Aquinas

Nowhere else to go

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

Sinner to Saint

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. - Soren Kierkegaard