Brain Candy 3

["Pop" Stran]

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

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A loafer always has the correct time.

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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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The heart is forever inexperienced.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

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Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

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["Pop" Stran]

Flowers are restful to look at.
They have neither emotions nor conflicts.






Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.





No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.






It's not the men in my life that counts,
it's the life in my men.





Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.





To withdraw is not to run away,
and to stay is no wise action,
when there's more reason to fear than to hope.





If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson,
hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

["Pop" Stran]

> My divorce came to me as a complete surprise.
That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.





> Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.





> Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.






> Communism is like one big phone company.





> God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.





> Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.






> The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews,
but that the pews are filled with empty people.






> Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.






> The journey is the reward.






> The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.