Wits & Wisdom
So Little Yet Big Enough To Inspire

Hello, hope you all had a great week. This beautiful essay - The Paradox of our age, is authored by By Dr. Bob Moorehead. It has been sent by email in different formats and gives credit to the comedian George Carlin. Below is the original from Dr. Moorehead’s book, ‘Words Aptly Spoken’ written […]

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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
“What food might this contain?” the mouse wondered!!!
He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in […]

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“GIVE US THIS DAY”

After watching sales falling off for three straight months at Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Colonel calls up the Pope to ask for a favor.
The Pope says, “What can I do?”
The Colonel says, “I need you to change the daily prayer from,’Give us this day our daily bread’ to ‘Give us this day […]

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When I look at a patch of dandelions, I see a bunch of weeds that are going to take over my yard. My kids see flowers for mom and blowing white fluff you can wish on.
When I look at an old man and he smiles at me, I see a smelly, dirty person who […]

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Enjoy these beautiful quotes on anger.

“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.”
Cato
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Dryden
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
Horace
“I heard someone say that he was sorry he had lost his temper. I was uncommonly glad to hear that […]

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In his Sunday sermon, the minister used “Forgive Your Enemies” as his subject. After the sermon, he asked how many were willing to forgive their enemies. About half held up their hands.
Not satisfied, he harangued the congregation for another twenty minutes and repeated his question. This received a response of eighty percent. Still unsatisfied, […]

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THIS PIECE IS STRICTLY FOR THE LADIES – Though our men can learn one or two things from it. Enjoy.
Infatuation is instant desire. It is one set of glands calling to the other. Love on the other hand is friendship that has caught fire. It takes root and grows-one day at […]

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
-Anonymous.
Fame is vapour, popularity an accident; riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.
-Greeley.
Be good at the depths of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be […]

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Continuation
I THANK YOU:
Gratitude is an exquisite form of courtesy. People who enjoy the companionship of good, close friends are those who don’t take daily courtesies for granted. They are quick to thank their friends for many expressions of kindness. On the other hand, people whose circle of friends is severely constricted often […]

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There are many things that we can do to perk up and strengthen our interpersonal relationships. Yet the most effective involves the saying of just three words. When spoken or conveyed, these statements have the power to forge new friendships, deepen old ones and restore relationships that have cooled. The following three-word […]

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