bible quotes on strength and courage

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. ~Felix G. Rohatyn, New York Times, 3 June 1987


Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb


The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov


Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver


The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman


The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. ~Winston Churchill


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa


By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset


An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ~Augustine Birrell


Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ~Martin Golding


Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Stan, don't you know the first law of physics? Anything that's fun costs at least eight dollars. ~Trey Parker, South Park, "Trapped in the Closet" Stan: "Dude, dolphins are intelligent and friendly."


When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ~G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908


A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner


Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872


You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. ~Local Saying


Life is a song. Love is the music. ~Author Unknown


My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat. ~Henny Youngman


There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown


Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966