"Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad" attributed to W. C. Fields, actually said by Leo Rosten
at a dinner introducing Fields.
"Go west, young man! " attributed to Horace Greeley, actually said by John Doule in an article in the Terre Haute
Express, 1851.
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!" attributed to Mark Twain actually
Charles Dudley Warner in an editorial published in the Hartford Courant, 1897.
"Survival of the fittest." attributed to Charles Darwin, actually Herbert Spencer from Principles of Biology, part 11,
chapter 12.
"That government is best which governs least." attributed to founding father Thomas Jefferson, actually Henry
David Thoreau (who put it in quotation marks in Civil Disobedience and called it a "motto").
"Cleanliness is next to godliness." Often thought to be in The Bible, actually from the sermons of John Wesley
(Sermons, No. 93, "on Dress").
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." attributed to Confucius actually from Lao Tzu (The
Way of Lao Tzu).
Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited
until you try to sit in their pews.
It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.
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Little wits of
wisdom and fun to be used in newsletters, sermons, bulletins, church
signs, or any way you see fit.
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There is always death and taxes; however death doesn't get worse every year.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
I don't mind going anywhere as long as it's an interesting path.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
Indecision is the key to flexibility.
It hurts to be on the cutting edge.
If it ain't broke, fix it till it is.
I don't get even, I get odder.
Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.
People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.
When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.