Updated 4/17/00
Words of Wisdom
Welcome to our Words of Wisdom page.  At times, we all need some type of inspiration, something to latch on to to help us through problems we may encounter, big or small.  I hope these thoughts and ideas help you in your quest.



NEW    Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -- Goldsmith

NEW    Midnight, -- strange mystic hour, --when the veil between the frail
presentand the eternal present grows thin. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you
        are very likely to have a mob. -- Johnson

Nobility, without Virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. -- Jane Porter

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. -- Alexander
        Smith

Hope is but the dream of those that wake. -- Prior

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring.  He
        kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral:  When
        you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.  --  Unknown

It is easy to criticise an author, but difficult to appreciate him. --
        Vauvenargues

The unspoken word never does harm. -- Kossuth

"Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished
        by expresssions like ``excuse me", and other such simple courtesies. Our
        spirits are also richly fed on compliments and praise, nourished by
        consideration as well as  whole wheat bread. Rudeness, the absence of the
        sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money
        society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life." --
        Ed Hays

Castles in the Air We build on the ice, and write on the waves of the sea. -- The
        waves roaring, pass away;  the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like
        our thoughts. -- Herder

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. --Confucius

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. --Coleridge

Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself
        out of breath.  --Fuller

A teacher is someone who takes your hand, opens your mind, and touches your
        heart.  -- Anonymous

From Taboo MacFru : Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad
        check.