Favorite Quotes

[GreatLakesGramma]

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it. - Francois de la Rouchefoucauld

[Overaged]

"Let us never lose sight of the fact that Jesus is a well-spring of joy. He does not delight in the misery of human beings, but loves to see them happy." (Adventist Home pg. 513).

[GreatLakesGramma]

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter-productivity. - Erma Bombeck

[Overaged]

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter-productivity. - Erma Bombeck

Is she the one who said: "Life is a bowl of cherries, so what am I doing in the pits?"

My Granny had a saying when she was alive that I adopted:

"Life is a garden SO DIG IT!"

[GreatLakesGramma]

There are many of us willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. - D.L. Moody

[Overaged]

"Every warning; every reproof, and entreaty in the Word of God or through His messengers is a knock at the door of the heart. It is the Voice of Jesus, asking for entrance." (DA 489,490)

[GreatLakesGramma]

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to Jesus. Once we are there, then its purpose is finished. If we continue to make ourselves guilty – to blame ourselves – then it is sin in itself. - Corrie ten Boom

[karl]

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.*

[GreatLakesGramma]

When dieting, remember: What’s on the table eventually becomes what’s on the chair. - Barbara Johnson

[phkrause]

When dieting, remember: What’s on the table eventually becomes what’s on the chair. - Barbara Johnson

I love that one GLG.

[GreatLakesGramma]

I do too. That's why I saved it.

[Overaged]

LOL, yes that was a very good one GLC!

Kind of like "Once on the lips, forever on the hips."

[GreatLakesGramma]

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. - Abraham Lincoln

[GreatLakesGramma]

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. - Herbert Hoover

[GreatLakesGramma]

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

[GreatLakesGramma]

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. - Helen Keller

[GreatLakesGramma]

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend. - Jack Kemp

[Overaged]

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

-Dennis Miller

[GreatLakesGramma]

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. - Bob Hope

[GreatLakesGramma]

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I most need it. - Swedish proverb

[GreatLakesGramma]

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. - Groucho Marx

[karl]

One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.

[GreatLakesGramma]

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays, and the other who never forgets them. - Ogden Nash

[GreatLakesGramma]

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[GreatLakesGramma]

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? - Barbra Streisand