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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
thing.
-- Anatole France
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they
think laughable.
-- Johann W. von Goethe
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The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming
majority of Americans are possessed of 2 great qualities -- a sense
of humor and a sense of proportion.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next
generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to
laugh at himself.
-- Charles M. Schulz
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if
you can use either one, it's a miracle.
-- Barbara Johnson
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Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount
of determination.
-- Author Unknown
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When the ancients said a work well begun was half fone, they meant
to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good
beginning.
-- Polybius
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Temperament we are born with, character we have to make; and that
not in the grand moments...but in the DAILY, quiet paths of
pilgrimage.
-- Baldwin Brown
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A Builder or a Wrecker
I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,
They swung a beam and a side wall fell.
I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled?
And the men you'd hire if you had to build"
He gave a laugh and said, "No indeed!
Just common labor is all I need.
I can easily wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken a year to do."
And I thought to myself as I went my way,
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
Measuring life by the rule and square?
Am I shaping my deeds to a well-made plan,
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker, who walks the town,
Content with the labor of tearing down?
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