Note: The Pledge of Allegiance

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A Thousand Words Are Worth A Picture

Kenneth L Grooms

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Birds of a feather flock together.
A narrow mind has a broad tongue.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
There is more to life than increasing it's speed.
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Too much of the world is run on the theory you don't need road manners if you are a five-ton truck.
He who is known as an early riser can stay in bed till noon.
When you see a situation you cannot understand, look for the finacial interest.
It is better to be a has-been than one who never was.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.
After learning the tricks of the trade, many of us think we know the trade.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
He that lives on hope has but a slender diet.
If god had meant for people to go nude they would have been born that way.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
One of these days is none of these days.
There are two sides to every question and if you want to be popular you take both.
Logic is the artof going wrong with cofidence.
All looks yellow to a jaundice eye.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The rich need not beg a welcome.
Castles in the air are all right until we try to move into them.
To most of us it would be very convenient if god were a rascal.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
When you probe unseen places use protection.
A real christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The most welcome person is the one that knows when to go.
He who loses his head is usually the last one to miss it.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
He that has but four and spends five, has no need for a purse.
Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections.
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
The fellow who is a good sport has to lose to prove it.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Easy street is a blind alley.
It would be a swell world if everybody was as pleasant as the fellow who's trying to skin you.
To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.
When it comes tohelping you, some people stop at nothing.
The growth of wisedom can be accurately gauged by the drop in ill temper.
There are visual errors in time as well as in space.
One thing in favor of a polka-dot tie is that one more spot doesn't matter.
Occasionally you meet a person who thinks he is all seven wonders of the world.
You never know how many friends you have until you rent a cottage at the beach.
Some people think they are generous because they give away free advice.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to conemn an innocent one.
No question is so difficult as that to which the answer is obvious.
Some people know how to live everyone's life but their own.
Don't discourage the other man's plans unless you have better ones to offer.
The things most people want to know are usually none of their business.
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
Who lives content with little possesses everything.
No one is unemployed who minds his own business.
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
The man who wants for things to turn up has his eyes fixed on his toes.
The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived by him.
The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
Mistrust first impulses, they are always good.
To approve is more difficult than to admire.
The virtue which we appreciate we to some extent appropriate.
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Anticipation breeds frustrastion.
When the cup is full, carry it even.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Be obscure clearly.
Some people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their character.
There is no indigestion worse than that which comes from having to eat your own words.
Everyone complains of memory, no one of his judgement.
Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
It may be those who do most, dream most.
They talk most who have least to say.
A man in passion rides a mad horse.
You cannotbe anything if you want to be everything.
What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand.
Have a nice day.