The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.- Billy Joel

Thus [in heaven] they shall eat and drink abundantly, and swim in the ocean of love, and be eternally swallowed up in the infinitely bright, and infinitely mild and sweet, beams of divine love; eternally receiving that light, eternally full of it, and eternally compassed round with it, and everlasting reflecting it back again to its foundations.- Jonathan Edwards

Quoted in The Rational Biblical Theology of Jonathan Edwards by John Gerstner, Berea Publication, 1993, p. 543

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.- Clementine Paddleford, 1898 - 1967

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. - Cordell Hull, 1871 - 1955

Never rely on your friends for money, or on your money for friends.- Mardy Grothe