How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife! But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys, And Christmas shortens all our days: Sometimes with oysters we combine, Sometimes assist the savory chine; From the low peasant to the lord, The Turkey smokes on every board.
Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstancesâ it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
A rose-red city half as old as Time.
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
Let me give so much time to the improvement of myself that I shall have no time to criticize others.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Money comes and goes, but people last for a lifetime.
Sometimes to be headstrong, is to be brain-weak.
Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.
Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backward.
Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
To live your life to the fullest, you've got to be a master of economics...after all, time's demand is always far exceeding it's supply.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Time heals nothing, it merely re-arranges our memory.
Do one thing at time, with supreme excellence.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Every girl should use what mother nature gives her before father time takes it away.
A careless word may kindle strife.A cruel word may wreck a life.A timely word may level stress.A loving word may heal and bless.
A certain man had invited the pastor and his wife for dinner, and it was little Joey's job to set the table. But when it came time to eat, Joey's mother said with surprise, "Why didn't you give Mrs. Brown a knife and fork dear?". "I didn't think I needed to," Joey explained, "I heard Daddy say she always eats like a horse.".
And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.