Our lives are like icebergs, only 15 percent is visible; that's reputation. The rest, our character, is below the surface, hidden. Character is what we think but never share. It's what we do when no one is watching. It's how we react to everyday aggravations. It's how we handle failure and success. The thing that has made us what we are is our choices. At the end of a successful career, Joshua challenged the people of Israel: "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.. but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."

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

People don't plan to fail - they simple fail to plan.

When in doubt ... punt.

When in doubt - chop it off.

Sorry, inside joke from my college days.

If you have a rose to give, give it today for tomorrow may be too late.

Life's too short to dance with ugly men.

Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.

We women are Angels
but when someone breaks our wings ..
We continue to fly ... On a broomstick ..
We're flexible like that!

Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing even though it's in hot water up to its nose.

People are certainly peculiar - they want the front of the bus, the back of the church and the middle of the road.

Flattery: is the art of telling another person exactly what he thinks of himself

What fresh hell is this?

---Dorothy Parker

A politician is someone who never met a tax he didn't hike.

Tin foil is expensive.

Man aspires to greatness; woman conspires to keep him from reaching it

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

----Frank Zappa

If at first you do succeed, it's to easy-try something else.

Good judgment comes from experience-usually experience which was the result of poor judgment.

Be careful of your thoughts; They may break into words at any time.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization

Well ... this has turned into more of a 'Phrase or pithy comment of the day' than 'word of the day' ... so, here's one:

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

General Norman Schwarzkopf

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Good one, Hal. Sounds a though you've had experience.

as, as, as.

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

>>Good one, Hal. Sounds a though you've had experience.

I was born and raised in Miles ; -)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart" Helen Keller

There comes a point in your life when you realize
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
'Be kinder than necessary
because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'

A road map tells you everything except how to refold it.

The main cause of problems is solutions.

Worry is the darkroom where negatives become glossy prints.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Never eat any product on which the listed ingredients cover more than one-third of the package.

If GOD believed in permissiveness, he would have given us the Ten Suggestions.

A hug is a perfect gift-one size fits all and nobody minds if you give it back.

To Get along in today's economy, a man should have something working for him-like a wife.

We all have undeveloped territory-it's under our hat.

Always try to drive so that your license will expire before you do.

With proper care, the human body will last a lifetime.

"Here then is the source from whence all your sedition flows, and until those crotalophorus and ostentiferous institutions are disconcantinated - and the individuals who compose them experience a decollation, their querulous bombilations and debulitions will never cease to obnubilate the prospects of their superiors."
The Virginia Chronicle, July 17, 1794

Holy cow, Hal. I'm gonna have to spend 15 minutes looking up words just to understand that one!

The man who gets ahead is the one who does more than is necessary.

The honeymoon is over when your wife complains about the noise you make when you are getting breakfast.

You don't need a parachute to go skydiving... You need a parachute if you want to go skydiving twice!!

Gather ye rosebuds where ye may; florists are very expensive.

"We have lost more lives at the hands of the whiskey sellers than by the balls of our enemies."
General Braxton Bragg, CSA, Pensacola, Florida, 1861

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The difference between dogs and cats is that dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you.

Anticipating is even more fun than recollecting.

No noise is so emphatic as one you are trying not to listen to.

Clint Eastwood = Old West Action

The country side = No City Dust Here

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.

Cursing is a crutch for conversational cripples.

Procreate that.

Man is the only species who plants a crop he can't eat but still has to mow every week.

Refudiate.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Veni, Vida, Visa, (we came, we saw, we went shopping)

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs or cutting hair.

A nickel goes a long way now. You can carry it around for days without finding a thing it will buy.

Management is the art of getting other people to do all the work.

The tongue-we spend three years learning how to use it and the rest of our lives learning how to control it.

As you slide down the banister of life, don't get a splinter in your career.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.