A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
One day, a father went to his three sons and told them that he would die soon and he needed to decide which one of them to give his property to. He decided to give them all a test. He said, "Go to the market, my sons, and purchase something that is large enough to fill my bedroom, but small enough to fit in your pocket." From this, I will decide who of you is the wisest and is worthy enough to inherit my land." So, they all went to the market and bought something that they thought would fill the room, yet was still small enough that they could fit into their pockets. Each son came back with a different item. The father told his sons to come into his bedroom one at a time and try to fill up his bedroom with whatever they had purchased. The first son came in and put some pieces of cloth that he had bought and laid them end to end across the room, but it barely covered any of the floor. Then the second son came in and laid some hay, that he had purchased, on the floor but there was onl...
The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. Who am I?
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
the more they are the lesser you see?
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
How do you fit ten horses into nine stalls. No doubling up or splitting a stall.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
A mother sets her two twins up for adoption.One twins name is "Ahmal" and the other is "Juan".Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother.The moms new husband looks at the picture with his wife and she says "I wish I had a picture from Ahmal".I don't know what he looks like.
I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
I have many tongues but cannot taste By me, most things are turned to waste I crack and snap, yet I stay whole I may take the largest toll I assisted all of the first men And I will pay them back again Around me, people snuggle and sleep Yet run when I am released from my keep I jump around and leap and bound The cold man wishes I he had found
Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.
What looks accacly like a monkey but it is't a monkey?
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
You see me not but you know i am there. You can lose me or catch me without much care. Smell good or smell bad I am...
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
If you have two quarters on a table touching each other, how can you move one of the quarters without touching it? You are only allowed to touch one quarter but not move it. You can?t touch the quarter that you move. You want to get at least enough room between the two quarters to insert another coin between the two quarters.
I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
You are trapped in a dimly lit dungeon deep below the city of Berlin.You know that one door leads to freedom,and a holiday in the canary islands,while the other leads to death. There are two armed giants,each gaurding one of the doors.You know that the giants names are Ivan and Mike.You do not know which is which. You also know that one of them always tells the truth, while the other always tells lies.Yet again,you do not know which is which. You are allowed to ask one of the giants one question. What question should you ask???
I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
I can kill people, but without me there would be no people. I was born long ago and will someday die. I can cause fire and am a magician with water. I have more brothers than any person. There is very little that can stop me. What am I?
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
"I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, ""Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect."
It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.
What has a bank, but no money.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.
On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their politics or religion, agree is between heaven and earth?
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
The head is the tail and tail is the head and u r in the middle. What is it?
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I am the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I am a gift beyond measure, a matter of course. I am given with pleasure when taken by force. What am I?
I'm so fast you can't see me, Though everyone sees straight through me, I don't stop until the day you die. What am I?
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
An electric train leaves New Orleans at 10 am. it goes north to Cincinnati. the wind is blowing from east to west. in what direction is the smoke from the train going?
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.