“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think that laughing is the thing I like most. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.” -Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Hepburn-Ruston (1929 - 1993))
Overheard: I just want to spend the rest of my life laughing.
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“At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since.” -Marilyn vos Savant (born 1946)
“I think laughter may be a form of courage.” -Linda Ellerbee (born 1944)
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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
-William Blake (1757 - 1827): “Laughing Song”
“I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.” -Kimberly Elise
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“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on.” -Bob Newhart (George Robert ‘Bob’ Newhart (born 1929))
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” -Bennett Cerf (Bennett Alfred Cerf (1898 - 1971))
“Sharing laughter heals hearts.” -Patsy Clairmont (born 1945)
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“Laughter is the music of life.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
“Daily laughter has been shown to elevate our moods, promote creativity, and give us more energy.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“Laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.” -Jessica Simpson
“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
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“Laughter is what makes a home warm, and what makes a workplace human.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
“A good time to laugh is any time you can.” -Linda Ellerbee (born 1944)
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“There is little success where there is little laughter.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
Overheard: I just want to spend the rest of my life laughing.
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“At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since.” -Marilyn vos Savant (born 1946)
“I think laughter may be a form of courage.” -Linda Ellerbee (born 1944)
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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
-William Blake (1757 - 1827): “Laughing Song”
“I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.” -Kimberly Elise
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“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on.” -Bob Newhart (George Robert ‘Bob’ Newhart (born 1929))
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” -Bennett Cerf (Bennett Alfred Cerf (1898 - 1971))
“Sharing laughter heals hearts.” -Patsy Clairmont (born 1945)
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“Laughter is the music of life.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
“Daily laughter has been shown to elevate our moods, promote creativity, and give us more energy.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
“Laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.” -Jessica Simpson
“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
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“Laughter is what makes a home warm, and what makes a workplace human.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
“A good time to laugh is any time you can.” -Linda Ellerbee (born 1944)
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“There is little success where there is little laughter.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
Laughing Time
It was laughing time, and the tall Giraffe
Lifted up his head, and began to laugh:
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
And the Chimpanzee on the ginkgo tree
Swung merrily down with a “Tee Hee”:
Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee!
“It’s certainly not against the law!”
Croaked Justice Crow with a loud guffaw:
Haw! Haw! Haw! Haw!
The Dancing Bear who could never say, “No”
Waltzed up and down on the tip of his toe:
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!
The Donkey daintily took his paw,
And around they went: “Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!”
Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!
The Moon had to smile as it started to climb;
All over the world it was laughing time!
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!
Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
By William Jay Smith (1918 - 2015): “Laughing Time” (1955)
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It was laughing time, and the tall Giraffe
Lifted up his head, and began to laugh:
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
And the Chimpanzee on the ginkgo tree
Swung merrily down with a “Tee Hee”:
Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee!
“It’s certainly not against the law!”
Croaked Justice Crow with a loud guffaw:
Haw! Haw! Haw! Haw!
The Dancing Bear who could never say, “No”
Waltzed up and down on the tip of his toe:
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!
The Donkey daintily took his paw,
And around they went: “Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!”
Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!
The Moon had to smile as it started to climb;
All over the world it was laughing time!
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!
Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
By William Jay Smith (1918 - 2015): “Laughing Time” (1955)
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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870)): “A Christmas Carol” (1843)
Laughter has magical properties . . .
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Laughter is good exercise. Each time a person laughs, he or she burns an average of 3.5 calories.
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“Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” -Author Unknown
“Laughing helps; it’s like jogging on the inside.” -Author Unknown
“You know, there’s endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.” -Marlo Thomas (Margaret Julia ‘Marlo’ Thomas (born 1937))
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Daryl: Why is it a bad idea to laugh at people when they are down?
Lydia: They might get up!
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.” -Dame Edna Everage (character portrayed by John Barry Humphries (born 1934))
“Laugh, if you are wise.” -Marcus Valerius Martialis (also known simply as Martial (about C.E. 40 - about C.E. 103))
“The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
Just Laughin’
Did it ever occur to you
Of the good that you might do,
Just Laughin’.
Did you ever stop to think
That a sorrow you could sink,
Just Laughin’.
The world is like a dream,
Your thoughts are mostly clean,
When you’re laughin’.
The whole world seems more bright,
Everything turns out right,
Just Laughin’.
Victory seems to be your pace
And love just floods most every face,
Just Laughin’.
Everyone’s so bright and gay,
Work just seems to be like play
When you’re laughin’.
You’ll find the world much sweeter
And yourself will feel much better,
Just Laughin’.
Life itself would be so fine,
You can make it more divine,
Just Laughin’.
It’s the little things you do
And you know God loves you too,
When you’re laughin’.
By Hudson W. Cady (Hudson Waterman Cady (1894 - 1973))
“A laugh is a smile that bursts.” -Mary H. Waldrip (Mary Helen Waldrip (1914 - 1988))
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“People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.” -James J. Walsh
“If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” -Victor Borge (born Bǿrge (sometimes spelled Berge) Rosenbaum (1909 - 2000))
“A laugh’s the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer.” -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891): “Moby-Dick, or, The Whale” (18 October 1851)
“We need laughter very, very badly. Especially in this country. We have so much news being thrown at us. We need something to say, “Hey, wait a minute, let’s hold on here. There’s a life, you know, to live and to be enjoyed.” -Sid Caesar
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“Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.” -Kevin Hart
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“Laugh often, friends, tho’ passing years bring, sometimes, smiles, and sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!” -John McLeod
“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.” -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
“Does anyone remember laughter?” -Robert Plant
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“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.” -Madeleine L’Engle (Madeleine L’Engle Camp (1918 - 2007))
“It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))
“Laughter is a very special gift. We have to be very careful that it is used appropriately and not at the expense of others. But if you want to give the best medicine, help others learn to laugh.” -Floyd Kendall
“Allow yourself to laugh, and when you do, share your laughter with others.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
“Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to health.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“Take note of people who smile and laugh, and often, they’re attractive. People are drawn towards them. When you are filled with laughter, you are filled with God’s Spirit.” -Michael Crenshaw
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Laughter is good exercise. Each time a person laughs, he or she burns an average of 3.5 calories.
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“Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” -Author Unknown
“Laughing helps; it’s like jogging on the inside.” -Author Unknown
“You know, there’s endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.” -Marlo Thomas (Margaret Julia ‘Marlo’ Thomas (born 1937))
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Daryl: Why is it a bad idea to laugh at people when they are down?
Lydia: They might get up!
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.” -Dame Edna Everage (character portrayed by John Barry Humphries (born 1934))
“Laugh, if you are wise.” -Marcus Valerius Martialis (also known simply as Martial (about C.E. 40 - about C.E. 103))
“The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
Just Laughin’
Did it ever occur to you
Of the good that you might do,
Just Laughin’.
Did you ever stop to think
That a sorrow you could sink,
Just Laughin’.
The world is like a dream,
Your thoughts are mostly clean,
When you’re laughin’.
The whole world seems more bright,
Everything turns out right,
Just Laughin’.
Victory seems to be your pace
And love just floods most every face,
Just Laughin’.
Everyone’s so bright and gay,
Work just seems to be like play
When you’re laughin’.
You’ll find the world much sweeter
And yourself will feel much better,
Just Laughin’.
Life itself would be so fine,
You can make it more divine,
Just Laughin’.
It’s the little things you do
And you know God loves you too,
When you’re laughin’.
By Hudson W. Cady (Hudson Waterman Cady (1894 - 1973))
“A laugh is a smile that bursts.” -Mary H. Waldrip (Mary Helen Waldrip (1914 - 1988))
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“People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.” -James J. Walsh
“If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” -Victor Borge (born Bǿrge (sometimes spelled Berge) Rosenbaum (1909 - 2000))
“A laugh’s the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer.” -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891): “Moby-Dick, or, The Whale” (18 October 1851)
“We need laughter very, very badly. Especially in this country. We have so much news being thrown at us. We need something to say, “Hey, wait a minute, let’s hold on here. There’s a life, you know, to live and to be enjoyed.” -Sid Caesar
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“Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.” -Kevin Hart
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“Laugh often, friends, tho’ passing years bring, sometimes, smiles, and sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!” -John McLeod
“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.” -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
“Does anyone remember laughter?” -Robert Plant
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“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.” -Madeleine L’Engle (Madeleine L’Engle Camp (1918 - 2007))
“It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))
“Laughter is a very special gift. We have to be very careful that it is used appropriately and not at the expense of others. But if you want to give the best medicine, help others learn to laugh.” -Floyd Kendall
“Allow yourself to laugh, and when you do, share your laughter with others.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com
“Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to health.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“Take note of people who smile and laugh, and often, they’re attractive. People are drawn towards them. When you are filled with laughter, you are filled with God’s Spirit.” -Michael Crenshaw
“Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.” -Evinda Lepins
“Once you get people laughing, they’re listening, and you can tell them almost anything.” -Herbert Gardner
“At the height of laughter, the Universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” -Jean Houston (born 1937)
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“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.” -Karl Barth (1886 - 1968): as quoted in Robert I. Fitzhenry, editor: “The Harper Book Of Quotations” (1993), page 223
“Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother.” -Barbara Johnson (1927 - 2007)
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“Those who cannot laugh at themselves leave the job to others.” -Author Unknown
“Learn to laugh at your troubles and you’ll never run out of things to laugh at.” -Lyn Karol
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“Laughter is an instant vacation.” -Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger (1908 - 2002))
“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” -W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973)): “The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays” (1962), page 372
“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” -Henri Bergson (Henri-Louis ‘Henri’ Bergson (1859 - 1941))
“Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
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“He who laughs, lasts!” -Mary Pettibone Poole (birth year unknown - 1941): “A Glass Eye at a Key Hole” (1938), ‘Beggars Can’t Be Losers’; type of work: book of aphorisms and apothegms
“Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy . . . that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat of the moment. Banish tension and concern and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996)): “A Better Way to Live” (1990), ‘Rule 11’
“Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
“Laughter is the best medicine.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” -George Gordon Noel Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824))
What are the benefits of laughter? Laughter really is good medicine. Yes, studies have shown it time after time! Laughter lowers blood pressure, creates much better moods around the house, prevents illnesses, speeds up healing, and produces endorphins just like runners experience when they reach their peak running level, which prevents pain sensors from hurting so badly. Laughing may lower levels of stress hormones and strengthen the immune system.
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“Laughter is the Sun that drives Winter from the human face.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“There is no gift like a basket of laughter.” -Sarvesh Jain
“Laughter is God’s hand on the shoulders of a troubled world.” -Minnie Pearl (pseudonym of Sarah Ophelia Colley (1912 - 1996))
“As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter.” -Author Unknown
“You show your character in nothing more clearly than by what you think laughable.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919): “Poems of Passion and Solitude” (1883), ‘Solitude’
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891): “Moby-Dick, or, The Whale” (18 October 1851)
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
“Laughter translates into any language.” -Author Unknown
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults laugh only 15 to 100 times a day.
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“If you laugh a lot, when you get older, your wrinkles will be in the right places.” -Andrew Mason
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C. E. 65))
World Laughter Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May of every year. The first celebration was on 10 January 1998 in Mumbai, India, and was arranged by Doctor Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement.
“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
“A complete revaluation takes place in your physical and mental being when you’ve laughed and had some fun.” -Catherine Ponder (born 1927)
From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere!
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” (1960)
We are MFOL! Have you laughed today? If not, there is still time . . . just continue reading . . .
“Once you get people laughing, they’re listening, and you can tell them almost anything.” -Herbert Gardner
“At the height of laughter, the Universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” -Jean Houston (born 1937)
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“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.” -Karl Barth (1886 - 1968): as quoted in Robert I. Fitzhenry, editor: “The Harper Book Of Quotations” (1993), page 223
“Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother.” -Barbara Johnson (1927 - 2007)
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“Those who cannot laugh at themselves leave the job to others.” -Author Unknown
“Learn to laugh at your troubles and you’ll never run out of things to laugh at.” -Lyn Karol
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“Laughter is an instant vacation.” -Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger (1908 - 2002))
“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” -W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973)): “The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays” (1962), page 372
“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” -Henri Bergson (Henri-Louis ‘Henri’ Bergson (1859 - 1941))
“Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
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“He who laughs, lasts!” -Mary Pettibone Poole (birth year unknown - 1941): “A Glass Eye at a Key Hole” (1938), ‘Beggars Can’t Be Losers’; type of work: book of aphorisms and apothegms
“Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy . . . that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat of the moment. Banish tension and concern and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996)): “A Better Way to Live” (1990), ‘Rule 11’
“Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
“Laughter is the best medicine.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” -George Gordon Noel Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824))
What are the benefits of laughter? Laughter really is good medicine. Yes, studies have shown it time after time! Laughter lowers blood pressure, creates much better moods around the house, prevents illnesses, speeds up healing, and produces endorphins just like runners experience when they reach their peak running level, which prevents pain sensors from hurting so badly. Laughing may lower levels of stress hormones and strengthen the immune system.
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“Laughter is the Sun that drives Winter from the human face.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“There is no gift like a basket of laughter.” -Sarvesh Jain
“Laughter is God’s hand on the shoulders of a troubled world.” -Minnie Pearl (pseudonym of Sarah Ophelia Colley (1912 - 1996))
“As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter.” -Author Unknown
“You show your character in nothing more clearly than by what you think laughable.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919): “Poems of Passion and Solitude” (1883), ‘Solitude’
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891): “Moby-Dick, or, The Whale” (18 October 1851)
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
“Laughter translates into any language.” -Author Unknown
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults laugh only 15 to 100 times a day.
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“If you laugh a lot, when you get older, your wrinkles will be in the right places.” -Andrew Mason
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C. E. 65))
World Laughter Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May of every year. The first celebration was on 10 January 1998 in Mumbai, India, and was arranged by Doctor Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement.
“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
“A complete revaluation takes place in your physical and mental being when you’ve laughed and had some fun.” -Catherine Ponder (born 1927)
From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere!
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” (1960)
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For a while, I could not quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually, it came back to me . . .
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“I invest in boomerangs. They have a high rate of return.” -Author Unknown
Jared: What did the boomerang say as it went flying through the air?
Daryl: “I’ll be back.”
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“To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the boomerang effect. Give out what you most want see come back.” -Robin Sharma (Robin S. Sharma (born 1965))
Boomerangs come in two general categories: returning and non-returning.
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“Boomerang: A little stick with a big name.” -Author Unknown
“A man was given a new boomerang as a gift. The trouble was that he spent the rest of his life trying to throw his old one away.” -Author Unknown
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The returning boomerang can be used for recreation and sports, as a leisure toy, or as a weapon. A returning boomerang consist of two or more connected airfoil wings, configured so as to create an aerodynamically imbalanced shape that follows an elliptical trajectory, so that if used properly, it will fly away from the thrower, follow a curved flight path, and then return to the thrower.
“Success is like a boomerang, coming back to those who put in the effort.” -Author Unknown
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Jack: What do you get if you cross a skunk and a boomerang?
Jill: A smell you cannot get rid of!
The non-returning boomerang, or throwing stick, is intended primarily as a lethal weapon for use by hunters to kill animals for food, and doubles as an implement for digging and for starting friction fires, and even as a sound-producing instrument or signaling device when two of the sticks are struck together.
Riddle: You can throw me away, but I will come back. What am I?
Answer: A boomerang.
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A group of hunters armed with boomerangs can launch them into a flock of birds or a herd of animals in a coordinated effort, and with some statistical likelihood, achieve the objective of bringing down one or more of the birds or animals for their next meal.
Boomerangs use the same general principle as the wings of airplanes which, when moving forward through the air, develop lift. Indeed, boomerangs are among the earliest known human-made heavier-than-air flying objects, developed before even the bow-and-arrow and the slingshot.
Boomerang: What you say to frighten a meringue.
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“The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.” -Florence Scovel Shinn (1871 - 1940): “The Game of Life and How to Play It” (1925)
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“I invest in boomerangs. They have a high rate of return.” -Author Unknown
Jared: What did the boomerang say as it went flying through the air?
Daryl: “I’ll be back.”
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“To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the boomerang effect. Give out what you most want see come back.” -Robin Sharma (Robin S. Sharma (born 1965))
Boomerangs come in two general categories: returning and non-returning.
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“Boomerang: A little stick with a big name.” -Author Unknown
“A man was given a new boomerang as a gift. The trouble was that he spent the rest of his life trying to throw his old one away.” -Author Unknown
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The returning boomerang can be used for recreation and sports, as a leisure toy, or as a weapon. A returning boomerang consist of two or more connected airfoil wings, configured so as to create an aerodynamically imbalanced shape that follows an elliptical trajectory, so that if used properly, it will fly away from the thrower, follow a curved flight path, and then return to the thrower.
“Success is like a boomerang, coming back to those who put in the effort.” -Author Unknown
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Jack: What do you get if you cross a skunk and a boomerang?
Jill: A smell you cannot get rid of!
The non-returning boomerang, or throwing stick, is intended primarily as a lethal weapon for use by hunters to kill animals for food, and doubles as an implement for digging and for starting friction fires, and even as a sound-producing instrument or signaling device when two of the sticks are struck together.
Riddle: You can throw me away, but I will come back. What am I?
Answer: A boomerang.
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A group of hunters armed with boomerangs can launch them into a flock of birds or a herd of animals in a coordinated effort, and with some statistical likelihood, achieve the objective of bringing down one or more of the birds or animals for their next meal.
Boomerangs use the same general principle as the wings of airplanes which, when moving forward through the air, develop lift. Indeed, boomerangs are among the earliest known human-made heavier-than-air flying objects, developed before even the bow-and-arrow and the slingshot.
Boomerang: What you say to frighten a meringue.
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“The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.” -Florence Scovel Shinn (1871 - 1940): “The Game of Life and How to Play It” (1925)
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Anne: What is an Australian ghost’s favorite snack?
Gus: Boo-meringue pie.
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Boomerang: A cross between a cannon and a bell.
Although boomerangs are often associated with the continent of Australia, they have also been discovered in much older sites in the part of the world that is now the country of Poland, and which are associated with early humans of about 30,000 years ago. Other boomerangs have been found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs that are over 2,000 years old.
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Samantha: How do you get rid of a boomerang?
Tabitha: Throw it down a one-way street?
Overheard: My uncle Will had a boomerang that he did not want, but every time he tried to throw it away, he ended up badly injured.
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In 1992, German astronaut Ulf Merbold performed an experiment aboard the orbiting Spacelab that demonstrated boomerangs can function in zero gravity just as they do on Earth. French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy demonstrated the experiment while aboard the Mir space station in 1997. In 2008, Japanese astronaut Takao Doi again repeated the experiment. Who says people cannot have fun in space?
Boomerangs: Echo sticks.
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The best place to be when your boomerang makes its return flight would be behind a tree or rock, wearing a helmet, goggles, and thick padded protective clothes. Until you have gotten significant practice in throwing boomerangs, it is recommended that you do so only under the supervision of an experienced boomerang thrower. Practice in an area with plenty of room and with no people or animals or breakable objects within the throwing stick’s flight path, which of course means you will not want anyone standing close to you, either. An open field will do nicely. A boomerang is a potential killing weapon, so when it comes flying back to you, never try to catch it as you would a ball or a Frisbee; instead, let it hit the ground and then go pick it up.
Gus: Boo-meringue pie.
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Boomerang: A cross between a cannon and a bell.
Although boomerangs are often associated with the continent of Australia, they have also been discovered in much older sites in the part of the world that is now the country of Poland, and which are associated with early humans of about 30,000 years ago. Other boomerangs have been found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs that are over 2,000 years old.
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Samantha: How do you get rid of a boomerang?
Tabitha: Throw it down a one-way street?
Overheard: My uncle Will had a boomerang that he did not want, but every time he tried to throw it away, he ended up badly injured.
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In 1992, German astronaut Ulf Merbold performed an experiment aboard the orbiting Spacelab that demonstrated boomerangs can function in zero gravity just as they do on Earth. French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy demonstrated the experiment while aboard the Mir space station in 1997. In 2008, Japanese astronaut Takao Doi again repeated the experiment. Who says people cannot have fun in space?
Boomerangs: Echo sticks.
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The best place to be when your boomerang makes its return flight would be behind a tree or rock, wearing a helmet, goggles, and thick padded protective clothes. Until you have gotten significant practice in throwing boomerangs, it is recommended that you do so only under the supervision of an experienced boomerang thrower. Practice in an area with plenty of room and with no people or animals or breakable objects within the throwing stick’s flight path, which of course means you will not want anyone standing close to you, either. An open field will do nicely. A boomerang is a potential killing weapon, so when it comes flying back to you, never try to catch it as you would a ball or a Frisbee; instead, let it hit the ground and then go pick it up.
Riddle: What do you call a boomerang that does not return when you throw it?
Answer: A stick.
“Life is a journey full of boomerangs, and it is up to you what you throw out there.” -Author Unknown
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He wondered why the boomerang kept getting bigger, until finally it hit him.
Answer: A stick.
“Life is a journey full of boomerangs, and it is up to you what you throw out there.” -Author Unknown
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He wondered why the boomerang kept getting bigger, until finally it hit him.
A Boomerang World
As I was sitting outside this morning sipping my coffee and watching the Sun climb over the horizon, I looked down and saw a curved stick on the ground that reminded me of a boomerang. Suddenly I was caught up in memories of me as a kid playing for hours on end in my grandfather’s backyard with a small wooden boomerang he had given to me as a gift.
Remember when you were a kid, how fascinated you were with boomerangs? (At least I was.) You take this flat, curved piece of wood and throw it and then watch in amazement as it curves around in the air and comes right back to you.
As ‘miraculous’ as that seemed when we were kids, I’ve found that most of our life is like that. Whatever we throw out there, comes back to us.
We live in a boomerang world.
Let me explain:
If you smile at someone, in almost every case, they will smile back. Try it now with someone nearby and see if it works.
If you are kind toward someone, he or she will usually be kind in return. Of course, this also works in the other direction.
If you complain to someone, they will share their complaints with you. In fact, you may quickly find yourself in a subtle competition to see who is more miserable.
If you get angry at someone, they will usually get angry with you. And so on . . .
The fact is, whatever you decide to throw out into the world will usually circle around and land right back at your feet, much like the boomerangs we played with as kids.
Here’s what struck me this morning.
I have a choice about what I decide to throw out into my world. I have a choice about what I want to land at my feet?
If you want more joy - throw it out there.
If you want more happiness - throw some happiness out there to someone else and watch it miraculously come back to you.
It even works with money. Need money? Give some away. The spiritual leaders from the beginning of time have been telling us this, but most of us are afraid to believe it.
It works in just about every area of our life. When we give something away, when we throw it out there - it comes back to us.
But here’s the good news and this is really the miraculous part, we actually get more back than what we throw out there. Plant a seed and you don’t just get one seed back. You get hundreds - maybe even thousands!
So today and for as many days afterwards as you want, make a conscious choice about what you want to throw out into the world. By doing this, you will be making a choice about what is going to come back and land at your feet.
Remember the boomerang and that whatever you throw out there, will come back to you many times over.
By Author Unknown
As I was sitting outside this morning sipping my coffee and watching the Sun climb over the horizon, I looked down and saw a curved stick on the ground that reminded me of a boomerang. Suddenly I was caught up in memories of me as a kid playing for hours on end in my grandfather’s backyard with a small wooden boomerang he had given to me as a gift.
Remember when you were a kid, how fascinated you were with boomerangs? (At least I was.) You take this flat, curved piece of wood and throw it and then watch in amazement as it curves around in the air and comes right back to you.
As ‘miraculous’ as that seemed when we were kids, I’ve found that most of our life is like that. Whatever we throw out there, comes back to us.
We live in a boomerang world.
Let me explain:
If you smile at someone, in almost every case, they will smile back. Try it now with someone nearby and see if it works.
If you are kind toward someone, he or she will usually be kind in return. Of course, this also works in the other direction.
If you complain to someone, they will share their complaints with you. In fact, you may quickly find yourself in a subtle competition to see who is more miserable.
If you get angry at someone, they will usually get angry with you. And so on . . .
The fact is, whatever you decide to throw out into the world will usually circle around and land right back at your feet, much like the boomerangs we played with as kids.
Here’s what struck me this morning.
I have a choice about what I decide to throw out into my world. I have a choice about what I want to land at my feet?
If you want more joy - throw it out there.
If you want more happiness - throw some happiness out there to someone else and watch it miraculously come back to you.
It even works with money. Need money? Give some away. The spiritual leaders from the beginning of time have been telling us this, but most of us are afraid to believe it.
It works in just about every area of our life. When we give something away, when we throw it out there - it comes back to us.
But here’s the good news and this is really the miraculous part, we actually get more back than what we throw out there. Plant a seed and you don’t just get one seed back. You get hundreds - maybe even thousands!
So today and for as many days afterwards as you want, make a conscious choice about what you want to throw out into the world. By doing this, you will be making a choice about what is going to come back and land at your feet.
Remember the boomerang and that whatever you throw out there, will come back to you many times over.
By Author Unknown
Jeremiah: What do you get when you cross a boomerang and a rubber band?
Jeremy: A snappy comeback!
“Everything you unleash into the world will find its way back to you.” -Author Unknown
“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? -Alexandra Kathakis
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A boomerang makes a good whittling project. Start with a piece of a bent tree branch, split it lengthwise with an axe, and whittle away at it with a knife until you have made your own handcrafted throwing stick. Experiment with body and edge shapes to find what creates the best results when you fling your projectile into the wild blue yonder.
“Life is like a boomerang; the more good you throw out, the more you get in return.” -Author Unknown
Bernie: Why did the dog cross the road twice?
Barney: He was trying to fetch a boomerang.
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“Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
Overheard: “I threw a boomerang six years ago, and it never came back. Now I live in constant fear.”
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We are MFOL! . . . boomeranging out all across the internet . . . we can hardly wait to see its return flight . . . there it is . . . run for your life!
Jeremy: A snappy comeback!
“Everything you unleash into the world will find its way back to you.” -Author Unknown
“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? -Alexandra Kathakis
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A boomerang makes a good whittling project. Start with a piece of a bent tree branch, split it lengthwise with an axe, and whittle away at it with a knife until you have made your own handcrafted throwing stick. Experiment with body and edge shapes to find what creates the best results when you fling your projectile into the wild blue yonder.
“Life is like a boomerang; the more good you throw out, the more you get in return.” -Author Unknown
Bernie: Why did the dog cross the road twice?
Barney: He was trying to fetch a boomerang.
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“Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
Overheard: “I threw a boomerang six years ago, and it never came back. Now I live in constant fear.”
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Jordan: Why do trains go on tracks?
Israel: So that they don’t get lost.
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What is the difference between railroads and railways? The two words are frequently taken to mean the same thing, and are often used interchangeably. Most of the English-speaking world uses the term ‘railways,’ except for Americans, who have a preference for the term ‘railroads.’
A train was going very, very slowly, and a group of tourists were growing increasingly impatient. Finally, when it stopped for about the hundredth time, one of the tourists got out, walked to the front of the train, and asked the train-driver, “Can’t you go any faster?” “Oh, yes sir,” replied the driver, “But I’m not allowed to leave the train.”
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On a typical train, the locomotive is the vehicle that contains the engine or motor, the controls, and the engineer (driver or operator). The wheeled sections of trains that carry freight, passengers, or equipment are called cars. Cabooses were special cars that are mostly no longer in use, attached at the ends of trains, to carry train crewmembers, signaling devices, and repair tools and supplies.
Mary: What do you call a train loaded with bubble gum?
Marty: A chew-chew train
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Laura: I would like to take a train to Chicago.
Ticket Agent: I’m sorry, only qualified engineers are allowed to drive them.
Laura: Very well - may I go to Chicago by way of Buffalo?
Ticket Agent: I’m sorry; none of our buffalo go to Chicago.
Laura: Just let me have a round-trip ticket, please.
Ticket Agent: To where?
Laura: Back here, of course!
The word ‘train’ is derived from the Old French ‘trahiner,’ which derived from the even older Latin ‘trahere’ meaning ‘to pull’ or ‘to draw.’
Israel: So that they don’t get lost.
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What is the difference between railroads and railways? The two words are frequently taken to mean the same thing, and are often used interchangeably. Most of the English-speaking world uses the term ‘railways,’ except for Americans, who have a preference for the term ‘railroads.’
A train was going very, very slowly, and a group of tourists were growing increasingly impatient. Finally, when it stopped for about the hundredth time, one of the tourists got out, walked to the front of the train, and asked the train-driver, “Can’t you go any faster?” “Oh, yes sir,” replied the driver, “But I’m not allowed to leave the train.”
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On a typical train, the locomotive is the vehicle that contains the engine or motor, the controls, and the engineer (driver or operator). The wheeled sections of trains that carry freight, passengers, or equipment are called cars. Cabooses were special cars that are mostly no longer in use, attached at the ends of trains, to carry train crewmembers, signaling devices, and repair tools and supplies.
Mary: What do you call a train loaded with bubble gum?
Marty: A chew-chew train
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Laura: I would like to take a train to Chicago.
Ticket Agent: I’m sorry, only qualified engineers are allowed to drive them.
Laura: Very well - may I go to Chicago by way of Buffalo?
Ticket Agent: I’m sorry; none of our buffalo go to Chicago.
Laura: Just let me have a round-trip ticket, please.
Ticket Agent: To where?
Laura: Back here, of course!
The word ‘train’ is derived from the Old French ‘trahiner,’ which derived from the even older Latin ‘trahere’ meaning ‘to pull’ or ‘to draw.’
According to model railroad enthusiasts, model trains and toy trains are two completely different things. Sometimes in life, it is best not to disagree.
Trey: Why did the locomotive scream when it looked back?
Trevor: It was a freight of cargo.
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A British commuter hopped on a train to London and told the conductor he was going to Doncaster. “We don’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays,” said the conductor. “But I’ll tell you what, mate. We slow down at Doncaster to go through the junction. I’ll open the door, and you hop off. Mind you, we’re going fast. Hit the ground running so you don’t get pulled in by the train’s wake.” At Doncaster, the door opened, and the commuter hit the ground running. He was running so fast that his momentum carried him forward to the car ahead. There, another conductor opened the door, pulled him on board and, as the train resumed speed, said, “You’re mighty lucky I saw you, mate. This train doesn’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays.”
Clarabelle: What is the most difficult train to catch?
Maribel: The 12:50, because it’s 10 to 1 if you catch it.
Marcello: What kind of train do ballerinas travel in?
Arturo: Tutu trains.
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Jay: Why was the train telling jokes?
Robin: Because it was on a laugh-track.
Chuck: What kind of train has no wheels?
Norris: A train of thought.
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Sidney: If an electric train is traveling south, in which direction does the smoke go?
Cindy: There is no smoke, because it’s an electric train!
Trey: Why did the locomotive scream when it looked back?
Trevor: It was a freight of cargo.
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A British commuter hopped on a train to London and told the conductor he was going to Doncaster. “We don’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays,” said the conductor. “But I’ll tell you what, mate. We slow down at Doncaster to go through the junction. I’ll open the door, and you hop off. Mind you, we’re going fast. Hit the ground running so you don’t get pulled in by the train’s wake.” At Doncaster, the door opened, and the commuter hit the ground running. He was running so fast that his momentum carried him forward to the car ahead. There, another conductor opened the door, pulled him on board and, as the train resumed speed, said, “You’re mighty lucky I saw you, mate. This train doesn’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays.”
Clarabelle: What is the most difficult train to catch?
Maribel: The 12:50, because it’s 10 to 1 if you catch it.
Marcello: What kind of train do ballerinas travel in?
Arturo: Tutu trains.
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Jay: Why was the train telling jokes?
Robin: Because it was on a laugh-track.
Chuck: What kind of train has no wheels?
Norris: A train of thought.
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Sidney: If an electric train is traveling south, in which direction does the smoke go?
Cindy: There is no smoke, because it’s an electric train!
Get A Transfer
If you are on the Gloomy Line,
Get a transfer.
If you’re inclined to fret and pine,
Get a transfer.
Get off the track of doubt and gloom,
Get on the Sunshine Track - there’s room -
Get a transfer.
If you’re on the Worry Train,
Get a transfer.
You must not stay there and complain,
Get a transfer.
The Cheerful Cars are passing through,
And there’s lots of room for you -
Get a transfer.
If you’re on the Grouchy Track,
Get a transfer.
Just take a Happy Special back,
Get a transfer.
Jump on the train and pull the rope,
That lands you at the station Hope -
Get a transfer.
By Author Unknown
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If you are on the Gloomy Line,
Get a transfer.
If you’re inclined to fret and pine,
Get a transfer.
Get off the track of doubt and gloom,
Get on the Sunshine Track - there’s room -
Get a transfer.
If you’re on the Worry Train,
Get a transfer.
You must not stay there and complain,
Get a transfer.
The Cheerful Cars are passing through,
And there’s lots of room for you -
Get a transfer.
If you’re on the Grouchy Track,
Get a transfer.
Just take a Happy Special back,
Get a transfer.
Jump on the train and pull the rope,
That lands you at the station Hope -
Get a transfer.
By Author Unknown
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At some point before modern trains, people laid down metal tracks on roadways and built wagons with metal wheels to roll over them. The tramways initially ran on horsepower. Steam engines, diesel engines, and electric motors supplied by power from cables strung overhead, would come later.
The Victor Harbor Horse Drawn Trams are an iconic symbol of South Australia that have been transporting visitors to Granite Island for more than 100 years.
Garth: Why was the duck riding on the train?
Jethro: Because it was too far to waddle!
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A British commuter hopped on a train to London and told the conductor he was going to Doncaster. “We don’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays,” said the conductor. “But I’ll tell you what, mate. We slow down at Doncaster to go through the junction. I’ll open the door, and you hop off. Mind you, we’re going fast. Hit the ground running so you don’t get pulled in by the train’s wake.” At Doncaster, the door opened, and the commuter hit the ground running. He was running so fast that his momentum carried him forward to the car ahead. There, another conductor opened the door, pulled him on board and, as the train resumed speed, said, “You’re mighty lucky I saw you, mate. This train doesn’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays.”
“One stretch of track was so crooked we met ourselves coming back.” -Author Unknown
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Doctor Watson: How can you tell the train just went by?
Sherlock Holmes: You can see its tracks!
Doctor Watson: How will we find the missing train?
Sherlock Holmes: Follow its tracks!
Garth: Why was the duck riding on the train?
Jethro: Because it was too far to waddle!
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A British commuter hopped on a train to London and told the conductor he was going to Doncaster. “We don’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays,” said the conductor. “But I’ll tell you what, mate. We slow down at Doncaster to go through the junction. I’ll open the door, and you hop off. Mind you, we’re going fast. Hit the ground running so you don’t get pulled in by the train’s wake.” At Doncaster, the door opened, and the commuter hit the ground running. He was running so fast that his momentum carried him forward to the car ahead. There, another conductor opened the door, pulled him on board and, as the train resumed speed, said, “You’re mighty lucky I saw you, mate. This train doesn’t stop at Doncaster on Wednesdays.”
“One stretch of track was so crooked we met ourselves coming back.” -Author Unknown
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Doctor Watson: How can you tell the train just went by?
Sherlock Holmes: You can see its tracks!
Doctor Watson: How will we find the missing train?
Sherlock Holmes: Follow its tracks!
So you just woke up from a nap . . . slumbers can have strange consequences . . . just look at how much the world has changed while you slept . . . even trains are nearly unrecognizable!
“Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” -J. Paul Getty
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Once upon a time in the American state of Texas, a law existing that stated, “when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each train shall come to a full stop, and neither train shall proceed until the other has gone.”
“There’s a train at 4:04,” said Miss Jenny
“Four tickets I’ll take; have you any?”
Said the man at the door,
“Not four for 4:04,
For four for 4:04 is too many.”
-Author Unknown
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Railroads And Trains Facts
- Train track rails are made of steel, and train wheels are made of steel; the combination is literally steel on steel, a very efficient and effective mechanism.
- The two main types of trains are freight trains and passenger trains. Light rail trains are used mostly for passengers and sometimes small shipments of mail and packages. Light rail trains include electric trolleys and trams.
- Despite the constant improvements being made to air-filled, rubber-tire vehicles that move on asphalt and concrete roads, freight trains are still the best way to move extremely large and heavy items and bulk materials such as manufacturing equipment, mining and drilling equipment, military equipment, construction equipment, coal, and grain, particularly over long distances.
- Passenger trains and light rail can carry large numbers of people at high speeds between and within populated areas, which can help ease traffic congestion and provide transportation for people who are unable to drive, who have no vehicles, or who seek convenience.
Trey: Why did the locomotive scream when it looked back?
Trevor: It was a freight of cargo.
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Railroad Tracks And Trains Safety
Walking or playing on railroad tracks, on railroad bridges, or in railroad tunnels is never a good idea because trains move fast and can approach without any warning from engine noise, horns, or lights. The crew aboard the train may not see you on the tracks, and even if they do, they probably will not be able to stop the train in time to save you.
- Railroads are the private property of companies, governments, or utilities, and trespassing on private property can carry fines, incarceration, and other penalties.
- Can you think of other reasons to stay away from railroad tracks and trains?
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The Ombley-Wombley
Once upon a railroad track
The Ombley-Wombley sat.
Rumble clang,
Jumble jang,
Crumble bang -
And that’s the end of that.
By Peter Wesley-Smith
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Siderodromophobia is a persistent fear of railroads or of trains. Oh, my good-golly, what if I board a train and it never stops and I can never get off it? I’ll be stuck on the train forever!
“An old man with long gray whiskers came through the cars, selling popcorn, chewing gum, and candy. ‘Hey!’ said one of his customers. ‘I thought young boys were supposed to do your job.’ ‘I was a boy when this train started.’” -Thomas W. Jackson: “On A Slow Train Through Arkansas” (1903)
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Sasha: When does a snail go as fast as a train?
Ashley: When it’s on the train.
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At a station stop, the railroad’s president walked up to the locomotive and spoke to the engineer. “You were going 65 miles per hour and the speed limit is only 60 miles per hour, I saw it myself on the speedometer in the business car!” After a heated exchange, the engineer finally said, “You couldn’t possibly have been going 65, my speedometer said 60 miles per hour - and we never saw you go by us!”
The very first train reached a top speed of 8 kilometers (5 miles) per hour.
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Overheard: No, I did not miss my train. I just chased it out of the station because I didn’t like the looks of it!
The standard American railroad width of 1.4351 meters (4 feet and 8.5 inches) originated in the width of Roman war chariots. Former English subjects living in the United States of America designed the railroad system based on measurements of pre-railroad tramways built in England. The tramways were built using the same tools used to build wagons, which were also the same width. The reason wagons were built to that width is that otherwise, they would break during long treks across the old English roads. Those roads, built by the Romans, were full of ruts carved out by the wheels of Roman war chariots. All Roman chariots were built to a standard width of 1.4351 meters (4 feet and 8.5 inches), and so English wagons were built with wheels that would fit into those ruts. Thus, chariots of ancient Rome are the forerunners of modern trains.
Stella: How many train conductors does it take to change a light bulb?
Lester: Only one, but it doesn’t help, because he punches a hole in the new light bulb.
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Ricky: What do you call a train carrying a load of apples and bananas and oranges?
Martin: A tooty-fruity!
A ceremonial final strike of the hammer on 10 May 1869 marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States of America.
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The longest railway in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railroad, built between the years 1891 and 1916. It is a network of railways connecting European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces. It is 9,288 kilometers (5,787 miles) long and spans 8 time zones.
Two trains were in a train yard. One train said to the other, “I traveled more than 1,000 kilometers yesterday!” The other train said, “That’s incredible - a talking train!”
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The highest railway in the world is in Peru, where the Central Railway climbs to 4,784 meters (15,694 feet) in altitude in the Galera tunnel, at a location 174 kilometers (108 miles) from Lima. Tourists take it to get to the world-renowned ruins of ancient Machu Picchu.
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Once upon a time in the American state of Texas, a law existing that stated, “when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each train shall come to a full stop, and neither train shall proceed until the other has gone.”
“There’s a train at 4:04,” said Miss Jenny
“Four tickets I’ll take; have you any?”
Said the man at the door,
“Not four for 4:04,
For four for 4:04 is too many.”
-Author Unknown
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Railroads And Trains Facts
- Train track rails are made of steel, and train wheels are made of steel; the combination is literally steel on steel, a very efficient and effective mechanism.
- The two main types of trains are freight trains and passenger trains. Light rail trains are used mostly for passengers and sometimes small shipments of mail and packages. Light rail trains include electric trolleys and trams.
- Despite the constant improvements being made to air-filled, rubber-tire vehicles that move on asphalt and concrete roads, freight trains are still the best way to move extremely large and heavy items and bulk materials such as manufacturing equipment, mining and drilling equipment, military equipment, construction equipment, coal, and grain, particularly over long distances.
- Passenger trains and light rail can carry large numbers of people at high speeds between and within populated areas, which can help ease traffic congestion and provide transportation for people who are unable to drive, who have no vehicles, or who seek convenience.
Trey: Why did the locomotive scream when it looked back?
Trevor: It was a freight of cargo.
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Railroad Tracks And Trains Safety
Walking or playing on railroad tracks, on railroad bridges, or in railroad tunnels is never a good idea because trains move fast and can approach without any warning from engine noise, horns, or lights. The crew aboard the train may not see you on the tracks, and even if they do, they probably will not be able to stop the train in time to save you.
- Railroads are the private property of companies, governments, or utilities, and trespassing on private property can carry fines, incarceration, and other penalties.
- Can you think of other reasons to stay away from railroad tracks and trains?
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The Ombley-Wombley
Once upon a railroad track
The Ombley-Wombley sat.
Rumble clang,
Jumble jang,
Crumble bang -
And that’s the end of that.
By Peter Wesley-Smith
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Siderodromophobia is a persistent fear of railroads or of trains. Oh, my good-golly, what if I board a train and it never stops and I can never get off it? I’ll be stuck on the train forever!
“An old man with long gray whiskers came through the cars, selling popcorn, chewing gum, and candy. ‘Hey!’ said one of his customers. ‘I thought young boys were supposed to do your job.’ ‘I was a boy when this train started.’” -Thomas W. Jackson: “On A Slow Train Through Arkansas” (1903)
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Sasha: When does a snail go as fast as a train?
Ashley: When it’s on the train.
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At a station stop, the railroad’s president walked up to the locomotive and spoke to the engineer. “You were going 65 miles per hour and the speed limit is only 60 miles per hour, I saw it myself on the speedometer in the business car!” After a heated exchange, the engineer finally said, “You couldn’t possibly have been going 65, my speedometer said 60 miles per hour - and we never saw you go by us!”
The very first train reached a top speed of 8 kilometers (5 miles) per hour.
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Overheard: No, I did not miss my train. I just chased it out of the station because I didn’t like the looks of it!
The standard American railroad width of 1.4351 meters (4 feet and 8.5 inches) originated in the width of Roman war chariots. Former English subjects living in the United States of America designed the railroad system based on measurements of pre-railroad tramways built in England. The tramways were built using the same tools used to build wagons, which were also the same width. The reason wagons were built to that width is that otherwise, they would break during long treks across the old English roads. Those roads, built by the Romans, were full of ruts carved out by the wheels of Roman war chariots. All Roman chariots were built to a standard width of 1.4351 meters (4 feet and 8.5 inches), and so English wagons were built with wheels that would fit into those ruts. Thus, chariots of ancient Rome are the forerunners of modern trains.
Stella: How many train conductors does it take to change a light bulb?
Lester: Only one, but it doesn’t help, because he punches a hole in the new light bulb.
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Ricky: What do you call a train carrying a load of apples and bananas and oranges?
Martin: A tooty-fruity!
A ceremonial final strike of the hammer on 10 May 1869 marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States of America.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read History Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
The longest railway in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railroad, built between the years 1891 and 1916. It is a network of railways connecting European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces. It is 9,288 kilometers (5,787 miles) long and spans 8 time zones.
Two trains were in a train yard. One train said to the other, “I traveled more than 1,000 kilometers yesterday!” The other train said, “That’s incredible - a talking train!”
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The highest railway in the world is in Peru, where the Central Railway climbs to 4,784 meters (15,694 feet) in altitude in the Galera tunnel, at a location 174 kilometers (108 miles) from Lima. Tourists take it to get to the world-renowned ruins of ancient Machu Picchu.
Ernie: How do trains hear?
Barney: Through their engine-ears!
Trains And Railroads Quiz
- From what material are train tracks and train wheels made?
- What are the two main types of trains, based on what they carry?
“Know the name of the station you’re headed for. It’s a help in catching the right train.” -Author Unknown: “Agents Record” (1915), Volume 10, Issue 5, page 4, ‘The Real Salesman’ (“Agents Record” is a publication of the National Casualty Company)
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Trains And Railroads Quiz Answers
- Train tracks and train wheels are made of steel.
- The two main types of trains, based on what they carry, are freight trains and passenger trains.
A man was traveling across the country by train. He kept getting off at every station to buy a ticket till the next station. When the train reached the destination, the other passengers asked him why he bought a ticket at each stop instead of buying a single ticket for the entire trip. The man replied that his doctor had advised him against taking long journeys.
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Clyde: What is the difference between a railroad guard and a teacher?
Claude: One minds the trains, and the other trains the mind.
Which was invented first: the train, or the railroad tracks?
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Problem: Trains travel from one town to another town all day always on the same track, always going nonstop, and always at the same speed. The 12:00 noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip but the 4:00 p.m. train took an hour and 20 minutes. Why?
Solution: 80 minutes is the same as an hour and 20 minutes, so both trains ran in the same amount of time.
“Before the railroad . . . you simply could not transport agricultural goods more than one hundred miles by land. By that mile marker, the horses or oxen would have eaten as much as they could pull. Either you found a navigable water course . . . or you were stuck in bare self-sufficiency for all of your staples . . . overwhelmingly, what you wore, ate, and used to pass your hours was made within your local township, or dearly bought.” -J. Bradford DeLong: “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century” (2022)
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Passenger to railroad engineer: “What’s the use of having a train schedule if the trains are always late?”
Railroad engineer: “How would we know they were late, if we didn’t have a schedule?”
“Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as ‘railroads’ . . . As you may well know, Mr. President, ‘railroad’ carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by ‘engines’ which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children.” -Martin Van Buren (born Maarten Van Buren (1782 - 1862)) (1830)
Aubrey: What kind of bubble gum do railroaders prefer?
Audrey: Chattanooga Chew Chew.
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Austin: What do you call an engineer on the first day of the job?
Dustin: A trainee.
“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.” -Paul Theroux
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We are MFOL! . . . all aboard that’s coming aboard! Choo, choo! Chug-a-chug-a-chug-a-chug-a! Choo, choo! Clickety-clack! Clickety-clack!
Barney: Through their engine-ears!
Trains And Railroads Quiz
- From what material are train tracks and train wheels made?
- What are the two main types of trains, based on what they carry?
“Know the name of the station you’re headed for. It’s a help in catching the right train.” -Author Unknown: “Agents Record” (1915), Volume 10, Issue 5, page 4, ‘The Real Salesman’ (“Agents Record” is a publication of the National Casualty Company)
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Trains And Railroads Quiz Answers
- Train tracks and train wheels are made of steel.
- The two main types of trains, based on what they carry, are freight trains and passenger trains.
A man was traveling across the country by train. He kept getting off at every station to buy a ticket till the next station. When the train reached the destination, the other passengers asked him why he bought a ticket at each stop instead of buying a single ticket for the entire trip. The man replied that his doctor had advised him against taking long journeys.
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Clyde: What is the difference between a railroad guard and a teacher?
Claude: One minds the trains, and the other trains the mind.
Which was invented first: the train, or the railroad tracks?
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Problem: Trains travel from one town to another town all day always on the same track, always going nonstop, and always at the same speed. The 12:00 noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip but the 4:00 p.m. train took an hour and 20 minutes. Why?
Solution: 80 minutes is the same as an hour and 20 minutes, so both trains ran in the same amount of time.
“Before the railroad . . . you simply could not transport agricultural goods more than one hundred miles by land. By that mile marker, the horses or oxen would have eaten as much as they could pull. Either you found a navigable water course . . . or you were stuck in bare self-sufficiency for all of your staples . . . overwhelmingly, what you wore, ate, and used to pass your hours was made within your local township, or dearly bought.” -J. Bradford DeLong: “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century” (2022)
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Passenger to railroad engineer: “What’s the use of having a train schedule if the trains are always late?”
Railroad engineer: “How would we know they were late, if we didn’t have a schedule?”
“Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as ‘railroads’ . . . As you may well know, Mr. President, ‘railroad’ carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by ‘engines’ which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children.” -Martin Van Buren (born Maarten Van Buren (1782 - 1862)) (1830)
Aubrey: What kind of bubble gum do railroaders prefer?
Audrey: Chattanooga Chew Chew.
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Austin: What do you call an engineer on the first day of the job?
Dustin: A trainee.
“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.” -Paul Theroux
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We are MFOL! . . . all aboard that’s coming aboard! Choo, choo! Chug-a-chug-a-chug-a-chug-a! Choo, choo! Clickety-clack! Clickety-clack!
“Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we’ll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
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“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.” -Louis L’Amour (Louis Dearborn L’Amour (born Louis Dearborn LaMoore (1908 - 1988))) at https://www.louislamour.com/
“I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.” -Mike Ericksen
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“Sometimes the only available transportation is a leap of faith.” -Margaret Shepard
“Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.” -Mark Victor Hansen (born 1948)
“To me faith means not worrying.” -John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430))
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“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.” -Louis L’Amour (Louis Dearborn L’Amour (born Louis Dearborn LaMoore (1908 - 1988))) at https://www.louislamour.com/
“I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.” -Mike Ericksen
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“Sometimes the only available transportation is a leap of faith.” -Margaret Shepard
“Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.” -Mark Victor Hansen (born 1948)
“To me faith means not worrying.” -John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430))
Faith
Doubt sees the obstacles,
Faith sees the way.
Doubt sees the darkest night,
Faith sees the day.
Doubt dreads to take a step,
Faith soars on high.
Doubt questions, “Who believes?”
Faith answers, “I.”
By Author Unknown
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Doubt sees the obstacles,
Faith sees the way.
Doubt sees the darkest night,
Faith sees the day.
Doubt dreads to take a step,
Faith soars on high.
Doubt questions, “Who believes?”
Faith answers, “I.”
By Author Unknown
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“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.” -Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
“Start each day by saying to yourself, ‘I can do this.’ As you leave home, say to yourself, ‘I can do this.’ At each step along the way, say, ‘I can do this!’ You can, and you will, because you are an ‘I can do this’ kind of person with faith in yourself, and the knowing that ‘I can do this.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Let your faith be bigger than your fear.” -Author Unknown
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“Faith does not make things easy. It makes them possible.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” Luke, chapter 1, verse 37
“Faith never fails: it is a miracle worker. It looks beyond all boundaries, transcends all limitations, penetrates all obstacles, and sees the goal.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.” -Charles L. Allen (Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 - 2005))
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“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible” (King James Version (1611)), ‘Epistle to the Hebrews,’ chapter 11, verse 1
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on Earth, yet she will never fly with them to Heaven.” -Francis Beaumont
“Faith plus action equals transformation.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Fear, too, is a type of faith - faith that it won’t work out.” -Mary Tricky (similar quotation attributed to Elizabeth David)
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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” -Madeleine L’Engle (Madeleine L’Engle Camp (1918 - 2007))
“Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), commenting on belief in God (a quotation often referred to by persons other than its author as ‘Pascal’s Wager’)
“If I didn’t have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I’m an optimist. I’ve read the last page in the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.” -Billy Graham (William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior (born 1918))
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“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” -Rabindranath Tagore (also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, born Rabindranath Thakur (1861 - 1941))
“We have no way to know anything for certain except by faith.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that ‘I can do it’ - is the opposite of fear (‘What if I fail?’). And faith creates motivation, which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation . . . and eventually success.” -Howard Twilley (born 1943)
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“We are what we believe we are.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))
“A little fish, overhearing a fisherman remark that water is essential to life, became panicky and swam desperately in search of water, until it reached the ocean and asked a wise old fish where it could find water. The old timer laughed and said, ‘Why, you’ve never been out of water. You’ve had water all the time, but you didn’t know it.’ So it is with faith; you have it, it is with you. You simply have to realize and use it and it will grow.” -Author Unknown
“Start each day by saying to yourself, ‘I can do this.’ As you leave home, say to yourself, ‘I can do this.’ At each step along the way, say, ‘I can do this!’ You can, and you will, because you are an ‘I can do this’ kind of person with faith in yourself, and the knowing that ‘I can do this.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Let your faith be bigger than your fear.” -Author Unknown
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“Faith does not make things easy. It makes them possible.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” Luke, chapter 1, verse 37
“Faith never fails: it is a miracle worker. It looks beyond all boundaries, transcends all limitations, penetrates all obstacles, and sees the goal.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.” -Charles L. Allen (Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 - 2005))
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“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible” (King James Version (1611)), ‘Epistle to the Hebrews,’ chapter 11, verse 1
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on Earth, yet she will never fly with them to Heaven.” -Francis Beaumont
“Faith plus action equals transformation.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Fear, too, is a type of faith - faith that it won’t work out.” -Mary Tricky (similar quotation attributed to Elizabeth David)
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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” -Madeleine L’Engle (Madeleine L’Engle Camp (1918 - 2007))
“Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), commenting on belief in God (a quotation often referred to by persons other than its author as ‘Pascal’s Wager’)
“If I didn’t have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I’m an optimist. I’ve read the last page in the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.” -Billy Graham (William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior (born 1918))
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“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” -Rabindranath Tagore (also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, born Rabindranath Thakur (1861 - 1941))
“We have no way to know anything for certain except by faith.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that ‘I can do it’ - is the opposite of fear (‘What if I fail?’). And faith creates motivation, which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation . . . and eventually success.” -Howard Twilley (born 1943)
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“We are what we believe we are.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))
“A little fish, overhearing a fisherman remark that water is essential to life, became panicky and swam desperately in search of water, until it reached the ocean and asked a wise old fish where it could find water. The old timer laughed and said, ‘Why, you’ve never been out of water. You’ve had water all the time, but you didn’t know it.’ So it is with faith; you have it, it is with you. You simply have to realize and use it and it will grow.” -Author Unknown
I Believe
I believe in the Sun,
even when it is not shining.
I believe in love,
even when I do not feel it.
I believe in God,
even when He is silent.
By Author Unknown: lines written on the wall of a cellar that had been a hiding place for persecuted Jews in Cologne, Germany during World War 2; the poem was discovered after the building had been destroyed by bombing
“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
“Act like you are blessed. Talk like you are blessed. Walk like you are blessed. Put actions behind your faith and one day you will see it become a reality.” -Joel Osteen (born 1963)
“Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.” -Athenaeus of Naucratis (C.E. 170 - C.E. 223) (about C.E. 200)
I believe in the Sun,
even when it is not shining.
I believe in love,
even when I do not feel it.
I believe in God,
even when He is silent.
By Author Unknown: lines written on the wall of a cellar that had been a hiding place for persecuted Jews in Cologne, Germany during World War 2; the poem was discovered after the building had been destroyed by bombing
“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
“Act like you are blessed. Talk like you are blessed. Walk like you are blessed. Put actions behind your faith and one day you will see it become a reality.” -Joel Osteen (born 1963)
“Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.” -Athenaeus of Naucratis (C.E. 170 - C.E. 223) (about C.E. 200)
Faith
Faith . . .
Makes the outlook calm,
the uplook constant,
the inlook accurate.
Faith . . .
Makes yesterday a stepping stone,
today a new beginning
tomorrow a limitless possibility.
By Author Unknown
Faith . . .
Makes the outlook calm,
the uplook constant,
the inlook accurate.
Faith . . .
Makes yesterday a stepping stone,
today a new beginning
tomorrow a limitless possibility.
By Author Unknown
“Faith is the hostess that will not entertain doubt.” -Jenna Wright
“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy” (1897)
“Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand. For this too I believe, that unless I first believe, I shall not understand.” -Anselm of Canterbury (about 1033 - about 1109)
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” -Alex Hamilton (born 1936): “Born Old” radio broadcast, as quoted in the “Listener” (9 November 1978)
“Faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.” -Rosemary M. Wixom
“This is a time when we need faith, faith of a very definite and positive nature, the faith that will lead us to optimism. I believe that pessimism grows out of a lack of faith.” -Antoine R. Ivins
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“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach (born 1947) at http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/
“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430)): “Ioannis Evangelium”
“Faith is a refusal to panic.” -D. Martyn Lloyd
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“Rarely do we find ourselves in circumstances in which we cannot choose for ourselves between faith and belief or doubt and uncertainty.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.” -Viktor E. Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))
“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.” - Thomas Robert Gaines
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“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” -Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright (1867 - 1959)
“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.” -Beatrix Potter (Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943))
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
“In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.” -Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 - 1829)
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“I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the Sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The Story of Civilization” (1935 - 1975), volume 6, ‘The Reformation’ (1957), ‘Preface’
“The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.” -Brené Brown (Casandra Brené Brown (born 1965))
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“The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence.” -Felix Adler (1851 - 1933)
Faith
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
And you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown,
You must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
Or you will be taught to fly.
By Patrick Overton (Patrick Miles Overton (born 1948)): “The Leaning Tree” (1 January 1975); type of work: collected poems by a single author in book form; author website: https://patrickoverton.com
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“Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.” -William R. Inge (William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954))
“As the essence of courage is to stake one’s life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.” -William Salter
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“The abundance of courage came from an abundance of faith.” -Donald Trump (Donald John Trump (born 1946))
“The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God’s good time.” -John Ferguson (1921 - 1989): “The Enthronement of Love” (1 January 1950)
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“They are able because they think they are able.” [translation to English]
“Possunt, quia posse videntur.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)): “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), Book V, line 231; variously translated as “They can because they think they can.”
“Faith is courage; it is creative. Despair is always destructive.” -David S. Muzzey
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“Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do good and great things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. Believe in yourself.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“He does not believe, that does not live according to his Belief.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 1838
“It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of those he despises.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners” (1821 - 1822), ‘On Great and Little Things’
“The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear, and the opposite of fear is faith.” -Michael J. Fox (pseudonym of Michael Andrew Fox (born 1961))
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Poet at the Breakfast Table” (1872)
“We always act, feel, and perform according to what we imagine and believe to be true, about ourselves and our surroundings.” -Author Unknown
“Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.” -E. F. Schumacher
We are MFOL! . . . be of good cheer and talk to the world of happiness . . .
“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy” (1897)
“Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand. For this too I believe, that unless I first believe, I shall not understand.” -Anselm of Canterbury (about 1033 - about 1109)
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” -Alex Hamilton (born 1936): “Born Old” radio broadcast, as quoted in the “Listener” (9 November 1978)
“Faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.” -Rosemary M. Wixom
“This is a time when we need faith, faith of a very definite and positive nature, the faith that will lead us to optimism. I believe that pessimism grows out of a lack of faith.” -Antoine R. Ivins
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“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach (born 1947) at http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/
“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430)): “Ioannis Evangelium”
“Faith is a refusal to panic.” -D. Martyn Lloyd
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“Rarely do we find ourselves in circumstances in which we cannot choose for ourselves between faith and belief or doubt and uncertainty.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.” -Viktor E. Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))
“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.” - Thomas Robert Gaines
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“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” -Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright (1867 - 1959)
“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.” -Beatrix Potter (Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943))
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
“In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.” -Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 - 1829)
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“I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the Sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The Story of Civilization” (1935 - 1975), volume 6, ‘The Reformation’ (1957), ‘Preface’
“The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.” -Brené Brown (Casandra Brené Brown (born 1965))
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“The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence.” -Felix Adler (1851 - 1933)
Faith
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
And you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown,
You must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
Or you will be taught to fly.
By Patrick Overton (Patrick Miles Overton (born 1948)): “The Leaning Tree” (1 January 1975); type of work: collected poems by a single author in book form; author website: https://patrickoverton.com
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“Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.” -William R. Inge (William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954))
“As the essence of courage is to stake one’s life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.” -William Salter
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“The abundance of courage came from an abundance of faith.” -Donald Trump (Donald John Trump (born 1946))
“The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God’s good time.” -John Ferguson (1921 - 1989): “The Enthronement of Love” (1 January 1950)
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“They are able because they think they are able.” [translation to English]
“Possunt, quia posse videntur.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)): “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), Book V, line 231; variously translated as “They can because they think they can.”
“Faith is courage; it is creative. Despair is always destructive.” -David S. Muzzey
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“Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do good and great things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. Believe in yourself.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“He does not believe, that does not live according to his Belief.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 1838
“It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of those he despises.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners” (1821 - 1822), ‘On Great and Little Things’
“The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear, and the opposite of fear is faith.” -Michael J. Fox (pseudonym of Michael Andrew Fox (born 1961))
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Poet at the Breakfast Table” (1872)
“We always act, feel, and perform according to what we imagine and believe to be true, about ourselves and our surroundings.” -Author Unknown
“Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.” -E. F. Schumacher
We are MFOL! . . . be of good cheer and talk to the world of happiness . . .
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” -Bradley Millar
“I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.” -Stephen Fry (born 1957)
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.” -P. J. O’Rourke (Patrick Jake O’Rourke (born 1947))
“I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.” -Stephen Fry (born 1957)
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.” -P. J. O’Rourke (Patrick Jake O’Rourke (born 1947))
Kindness To Animals
Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf,
Be blithesome with the bunny, at barnacles don’t laugh!
Give nuts unto the monkey, and buns unto the bear,
Ne’er hint at currant jelly if you chance to see a hare!
Oh, little girls, pray hide your combs when tortoises draw nigh,
And never in the hearing of a pigeon whisper Pie!
But give the stranded jelly-fish a shove into the sea, -
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be!
Oh, make not game of sparrows, nor faces at the ram,
And ne’er allude to mint sauce when calling on a lamb.
Don’t beard the thoughtful oyster, don’t dare the cod to crimp,
Don’t cheat the pike, or ever try to pot the playful shrimp.
Tread lightly on the turning worm, don’t bruise the butterfly,
Don’t ridicule the wry-neck, nor sneer at salmon-fry;
Oh, ne’er delight to make dogs fight, nor bantams disagree, -
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be!
Be lenient with lobsters, and ever kind to crabs,
And be not disrespectful to cuttle-fish or dabs;
Chase not the Cochin-China, chaff not the ox obese,
And babble not of feather-beds in company with geese.
Be tender with the tadpole, and let the limpet thrive,
Be merciful to mussels, don’t skin your eels alive;
When talking to a turtle don’t mention calipee-
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be.
By J. Ashby-Sterry
Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf,
Be blithesome with the bunny, at barnacles don’t laugh!
Give nuts unto the monkey, and buns unto the bear,
Ne’er hint at currant jelly if you chance to see a hare!
Oh, little girls, pray hide your combs when tortoises draw nigh,
And never in the hearing of a pigeon whisper Pie!
But give the stranded jelly-fish a shove into the sea, -
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be!
Oh, make not game of sparrows, nor faces at the ram,
And ne’er allude to mint sauce when calling on a lamb.
Don’t beard the thoughtful oyster, don’t dare the cod to crimp,
Don’t cheat the pike, or ever try to pot the playful shrimp.
Tread lightly on the turning worm, don’t bruise the butterfly,
Don’t ridicule the wry-neck, nor sneer at salmon-fry;
Oh, ne’er delight to make dogs fight, nor bantams disagree, -
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be!
Be lenient with lobsters, and ever kind to crabs,
And be not disrespectful to cuttle-fish or dabs;
Chase not the Cochin-China, chaff not the ox obese,
And babble not of feather-beds in company with geese.
Be tender with the tadpole, and let the limpet thrive,
Be merciful to mussels, don’t skin your eels alive;
When talking to a turtle don’t mention calipee-
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be.
By J. Ashby-Sterry
“And all young people are concerned environmentalists, but no one is interested in keeping the schoolyard clean!” -David McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))
“I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.” -José Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955): “Meditations of Quixote” (1911)
“When your environment is clean you feel happy, motivated, and healthy.” -Lailah Gifty Akita: “Think Great: Be Great!” (31 October 2014)
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“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965): “The Philosophy of Civilization” (1951)
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” -Jack Handey (born 1949): “Deep Thoughts” (1992)
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.” -Henrik Ibsen (Henrik Johan ‘Henrik’ Ibsen (1828 - 1906))
“The environment is everything that isn’t me.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.” -Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964): “Silent Spring” (27 September 1962)
“Remember, people, if you were meant to have a fur coat, nature would have given you one. Do not be a thief and steal a fur coat from some animal who is its rightful owner.” -Author Unknown
“Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality, and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.” -Gaylord Nelson (Gaylord Anton Nelson (1916 - 2005)): upon starting the first Earth Day in 1970
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When is Earth Day? Earth Day is observed by environmental activists on 22 April of each year. If you are a regular person and not an environmental activist, Earth Day is every day.
Unless
someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “The Lorax” (18 June 1971)
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster region has become one of the world’s most unique wildlife sanctuaries, with thriving populations of wolves, deer, beavers, eagles, fish, and other animals.
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” - Jacques Cousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 - 1997))
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.” -Christine Stevens
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“Strip mining prevents forest fires.” -Author Unknown
Ninety-nine percent of all plant and animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct - not because of human activity, but because each species has a ‘life cycle.’ Every species appears, possibly goes through some changes, and then vanishes. This is part of the natural ‘cycle of life.’ By some estimates, animal species average about five million years of existence. Everything that begins also ends.
“No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” -Murray Banks (1917 - 2008)
“Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.” -Sam Graves
Wrong-Way Alien
A curious creature from Saturn
Came to Earth on some orbital pattern.
It saw our brown air,
And cement everywhere,
And screamed, “Why did I take that turn?!”
By Author Unknown
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Thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star.
-Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
“For the first time in history, one bag of groceries produces two bags of trash.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023)
What should you do if you discover an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866. It is a long-standing organization, unlike the here-today-and-gone-tomorrow groups of obnoxious hip young attention seekers who hold noisy protest demonstrations in front of shopping malls and on street corners. Additionally, the ASPCA has fantastic pet toys so that you and your furry friend can play together. The ASPCA website is www.aspca.org.
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“Nature provides a free lunch but only if we control our appetites.” -William D. Ruckelshaus
“I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.” -José Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955): “Meditations of Quixote” (1911)
“When your environment is clean you feel happy, motivated, and healthy.” -Lailah Gifty Akita: “Think Great: Be Great!” (31 October 2014)
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“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965): “The Philosophy of Civilization” (1951)
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” -Jack Handey (born 1949): “Deep Thoughts” (1992)
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.” -Henrik Ibsen (Henrik Johan ‘Henrik’ Ibsen (1828 - 1906))
“The environment is everything that isn’t me.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.” -Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964): “Silent Spring” (27 September 1962)
“Remember, people, if you were meant to have a fur coat, nature would have given you one. Do not be a thief and steal a fur coat from some animal who is its rightful owner.” -Author Unknown
“Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality, and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.” -Gaylord Nelson (Gaylord Anton Nelson (1916 - 2005)): upon starting the first Earth Day in 1970
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When is Earth Day? Earth Day is observed by environmental activists on 22 April of each year. If you are a regular person and not an environmental activist, Earth Day is every day.
Unless
someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “The Lorax” (18 June 1971)
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster region has become one of the world’s most unique wildlife sanctuaries, with thriving populations of wolves, deer, beavers, eagles, fish, and other animals.
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” - Jacques Cousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 - 1997))
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.” -Christine Stevens
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“Strip mining prevents forest fires.” -Author Unknown
Ninety-nine percent of all plant and animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct - not because of human activity, but because each species has a ‘life cycle.’ Every species appears, possibly goes through some changes, and then vanishes. This is part of the natural ‘cycle of life.’ By some estimates, animal species average about five million years of existence. Everything that begins also ends.
“No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” -Murray Banks (1917 - 2008)
“Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.” -Sam Graves
Wrong-Way Alien
A curious creature from Saturn
Came to Earth on some orbital pattern.
It saw our brown air,
And cement everywhere,
And screamed, “Why did I take that turn?!”
By Author Unknown
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Thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star.
-Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
“For the first time in history, one bag of groceries produces two bags of trash.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023)
What should you do if you discover an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866. It is a long-standing organization, unlike the here-today-and-gone-tomorrow groups of obnoxious hip young attention seekers who hold noisy protest demonstrations in front of shopping malls and on street corners. Additionally, the ASPCA has fantastic pet toys so that you and your furry friend can play together. The ASPCA website is www.aspca.org.
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“Nature provides a free lunch but only if we control our appetites.” -William D. Ruckelshaus
‘Tree-hugger’ is another name for an environmentalist.
Each year, the United States of America produces enough plastic wrap to shrink-wrap the entire state of Texas. Are you thinking what we’re thinking? Let’s do it!
Thames In Flames
In England, when crossing the Thames,
It sparkles and shimmers, like James.
It’s even reputed
To be unpolluted,
Though in places it bursts into flames!
By Author Unknown
“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.” -Garrett Hardin: as quoted in “The Ecologist” (February 1974)
Animal Rights Activist: Ma’am, do you realize some poor dumb beast suffered horribly so that you could wear that mink coat you have on?
Woman: How dare you talk that way about my husband!
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“With everything we read about spray cans and the ozone layer, it’s enough to scareosol to death.” -Author Unknown
Bulldozer
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
By Alan M. Eddison: as quoted in Rosemary McDougall: “Worse Verse” (1969)
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“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” -Burton Hillis (pseudonym of William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan (1915 - 1977))
“Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Revelation,’ chapter 7, verse 3
“When we study the habits of animals in a truly sympathetic way and become thoroughly acquainted with them and with the work that each one is performing, we shall see that each one has its place in the economy of God’s world, that each has its part to play, and that even so far as the animal world is concerned, we are all related and inter-related. If we destroy or permit to be destroyed that marvelous balance which the Divine Power has instituted in the Universe, we do it at our own peril. Instead, then, of being the enemies of the animal world, instead of being its persecutors and its destroyers, we should be its friends and helpers.” -Ralph Waldo Trine: “Every Living Creature: Or, Heart-Training Through the Animal World” (1899), page 64
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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” -Wendell Berry (Wendell Erdman Berry (born 1934))
The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington, United States of America, is a volcano that goes by the name of Mount Saint Helens.
“(Henry Bergh) was a notable defender of animals, and was the founder, in 1866, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This was the first humane society in the United States, antedating - a strange commentary - the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, founded by another Fifth Avenue resident, Elbridge T. Gerry, in 1874. Bergh was originally outraged by the treatment of horses on New York’s streets, especially the overworked beasts that pulled the omnibuses and stages.” -Jerry E. Patterson: “Fifth Avenue: The Best Address” (1998)
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“A zoo is a facility where animals are imprisoned for the crime of being different from us.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Nobody knows the exact age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.” -Author Unknown
“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” -Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
This animal is very bad:
When attacked, it defends itself.
-Theodore P. K.
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America The Beautiful
O beautiful for smoggy skies
Insecticided grains
For strip-mined mountains, majesty
Above the asphalt plain.
America, America,
Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines
With billboard signs
From sea to oily sea!
By George Carlin (George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937 - 2008))
“Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.” -Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
China produces more than 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks every year, using an estimated 25 million trees to do so. Hmmm . . . kinda makes reusable chopsticks seem like a good alternative, perhaps?
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“Protect the birds. The dove brings peace and the stork brings tax exemptions.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Each generation takes the Earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.” -J. Sterling Morton
Little Timmy, age five, was looking at a picture book. When he came to a picture of a zebra, his father asked him what animal that was. Timmy thought a moment, and then answered, “It’s a cow that ate bio-engineered corn.”
“Love thy neighbor, whether thy neighbor is a fuzzy bunny or a chirping chickadee or a grandpa who wears stripes with plaids.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“I personally can see no reason for conceding mind to my fellow men and denying it to animals . . . I at least cannot doubt that the interests and activities of animals are correlated with awareness and feeling in the same way as my own and which may be for aught I know just as vivid.” -Walter Russel Brain (1895 - 1966)
A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
-William Blake (1757 - 1827): ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (1803), lines 5 and 6; type of work: poem
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“Pollution: The dirtiest word in the world.” -Author Unknown
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It turns out that everything is actually everything else, just recycled. Matter becomes energy, and energy becomes matter, and so on. Nothing is ever destroyed, it just changes form. The Universe is a giant recycling system.
“Save a tree. Eat a beaver.” -Author Unknown
The Green Thing
In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags were not good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.” The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment.” He was right - our generation did not have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles and soda bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one television, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. And, the television had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from an opinionated young person.
By Author Unknown
Some landfilled trash retains its original weight, volume, and form for 40 years or longer.
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“Save the krill. Eat a whale.” -Author Unknown
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests . . . It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods - trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries . . . God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools - only Uncle Sam can do that.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914): “Our National Parks” (1901), chapter 10
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” -Marshall McLuhan (Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)) (1965)
“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” -Author Unknown: Indian proverb
“We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our children, that we forget about leaving better children to this planet. Educate your children - say ‘no’ to them every once in a while.” -Author Unknown
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“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.” -Gerald Durrell
“Extinction is Forever.” -Author Unknown: Friends of the Animals
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” -Ross Perot (Henry Ross ‘Ross’ Perot (1930 - 2019)) at https://www.rossperot.com/
Hurt No Living Thing
Hurt no living thing:
Ladybug, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap.
Nor dancing gnat, or beetle flat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.
By Christina Rossetti (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894))
We are MFOL! . . . saving the environment by recycling old jokes . . .
Each year, the United States of America produces enough plastic wrap to shrink-wrap the entire state of Texas. Are you thinking what we’re thinking? Let’s do it!
Thames In Flames
In England, when crossing the Thames,
It sparkles and shimmers, like James.
It’s even reputed
To be unpolluted,
Though in places it bursts into flames!
By Author Unknown
“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.” -Garrett Hardin: as quoted in “The Ecologist” (February 1974)
Animal Rights Activist: Ma’am, do you realize some poor dumb beast suffered horribly so that you could wear that mink coat you have on?
Woman: How dare you talk that way about my husband!
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“With everything we read about spray cans and the ozone layer, it’s enough to scareosol to death.” -Author Unknown
Bulldozer
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
By Alan M. Eddison: as quoted in Rosemary McDougall: “Worse Verse” (1969)
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“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” -Burton Hillis (pseudonym of William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan (1915 - 1977))
“Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Revelation,’ chapter 7, verse 3
“When we study the habits of animals in a truly sympathetic way and become thoroughly acquainted with them and with the work that each one is performing, we shall see that each one has its place in the economy of God’s world, that each has its part to play, and that even so far as the animal world is concerned, we are all related and inter-related. If we destroy or permit to be destroyed that marvelous balance which the Divine Power has instituted in the Universe, we do it at our own peril. Instead, then, of being the enemies of the animal world, instead of being its persecutors and its destroyers, we should be its friends and helpers.” -Ralph Waldo Trine: “Every Living Creature: Or, Heart-Training Through the Animal World” (1899), page 64
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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” -Wendell Berry (Wendell Erdman Berry (born 1934))
The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington, United States of America, is a volcano that goes by the name of Mount Saint Helens.
“(Henry Bergh) was a notable defender of animals, and was the founder, in 1866, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This was the first humane society in the United States, antedating - a strange commentary - the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, founded by another Fifth Avenue resident, Elbridge T. Gerry, in 1874. Bergh was originally outraged by the treatment of horses on New York’s streets, especially the overworked beasts that pulled the omnibuses and stages.” -Jerry E. Patterson: “Fifth Avenue: The Best Address” (1998)
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“A zoo is a facility where animals are imprisoned for the crime of being different from us.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Nobody knows the exact age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.” -Author Unknown
“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” -Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
This animal is very bad:
When attacked, it defends itself.
-Theodore P. K.
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America The Beautiful
O beautiful for smoggy skies
Insecticided grains
For strip-mined mountains, majesty
Above the asphalt plain.
America, America,
Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines
With billboard signs
From sea to oily sea!
By George Carlin (George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937 - 2008))
“Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.” -Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
China produces more than 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks every year, using an estimated 25 million trees to do so. Hmmm . . . kinda makes reusable chopsticks seem like a good alternative, perhaps?
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“Protect the birds. The dove brings peace and the stork brings tax exemptions.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Each generation takes the Earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.” -J. Sterling Morton
Little Timmy, age five, was looking at a picture book. When he came to a picture of a zebra, his father asked him what animal that was. Timmy thought a moment, and then answered, “It’s a cow that ate bio-engineered corn.”
“Love thy neighbor, whether thy neighbor is a fuzzy bunny or a chirping chickadee or a grandpa who wears stripes with plaids.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“I personally can see no reason for conceding mind to my fellow men and denying it to animals . . . I at least cannot doubt that the interests and activities of animals are correlated with awareness and feeling in the same way as my own and which may be for aught I know just as vivid.” -Walter Russel Brain (1895 - 1966)
A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
-William Blake (1757 - 1827): ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (1803), lines 5 and 6; type of work: poem
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“Pollution: The dirtiest word in the world.” -Author Unknown
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It turns out that everything is actually everything else, just recycled. Matter becomes energy, and energy becomes matter, and so on. Nothing is ever destroyed, it just changes form. The Universe is a giant recycling system.
“Save a tree. Eat a beaver.” -Author Unknown
The Green Thing
In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags were not good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.” The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment.” He was right - our generation did not have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles and soda bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one television, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. And, the television had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from an opinionated young person.
By Author Unknown
Some landfilled trash retains its original weight, volume, and form for 40 years or longer.
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“Save the krill. Eat a whale.” -Author Unknown
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests . . . It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods - trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries . . . God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools - only Uncle Sam can do that.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914): “Our National Parks” (1901), chapter 10
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” -Marshall McLuhan (Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)) (1965)
“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” -Author Unknown: Indian proverb
“We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our children, that we forget about leaving better children to this planet. Educate your children - say ‘no’ to them every once in a while.” -Author Unknown
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“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.” -Gerald Durrell
“Extinction is Forever.” -Author Unknown: Friends of the Animals
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” -Ross Perot (Henry Ross ‘Ross’ Perot (1930 - 2019)) at https://www.rossperot.com/
Hurt No Living Thing
Hurt no living thing:
Ladybug, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap.
Nor dancing gnat, or beetle flat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.
By Christina Rossetti (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894))
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