The Complete Book of Practical Proverbs and Wacky WitPractical, timely quips and quotations range from humorous one-liners and motivational maxims to inspirational selections, all from the timeless wisdom of the ages. A helpful resource for pastors, teachers, and speakers, this light-hearted combination of down-to-earth and heavenly truths is guaranteed to amuse, enlighten, and inspire anyone who gleans the pages for applicable sayings . . . or just for fun! |
Contents
Achievement | 1 |
Action | 3 |
Adversity | 4 |
Advice | 4 |
10 | 10 |
Ambition | 12 |
Arrogance | 14 |
Attitude | 17 |
Intelligence | 118 |
120 | 120 |
Judgment | 122 |
Justice | 124 |
Kindness | 126 |
Knowledge | 130 |
Laughter | 132 |
Laziness | 135 |
Authority | 19 |
Booze | 21 |
Bores and Boredom | 23 |
Change | 25 |
Character | 27 |
Christmas | 30 |
Commitment to | 33 |
Conceit | 35 |
Confidence | 37 |
Conscience | 39 |
Cooperation | 41 |
Correction | 43 |
Courage | 45 |
Creativity | 47 |
Decision Making | 49 |
Diplomacy | 51 |
Direction | 53 |
Discouragement | 55 |
Drinking and Driving | 57 |
Egotism | 60 |
Endurance | 62 |
Experience | 64 |
Failure | 69 |
Faith | 71 |
Father | 74 |
Fear | 76 |
Fools and Foolishness | 79 |
Friendship | 83 |
Fulfillment | 87 |
Future | 89 |
Gambling | 93 |
Giving | 95 |
Gossip | 97 |
Happiness | 99 |
Hearing | 103 |
Help | 105 |
Honesty | 107 |
Hope | 109 |
Horse Sense | 111 |
Humor | 113 |
Ideas | 116 |
Leadership | 137 |
Learning | 139 |
Life and Death | 141 |
Love | 143 |
ManHusband | 147 |
Marriage | 149 |
Mercy | 153 |
Mistakes | 155 |
Money | 157 |
Mother | 163 |
Motivation | 167 |
MouthSpeech | 169 |
Obedience | 171 |
Opportunity | 173 |
OptimismPessimism | 175 |
Parents | 179 |
Persistence | 183 |
Pride | 195 |
Problems | 197 |
Promises | 200 |
Quarrels | 202 |
Quietness | 204 |
Reputation | 206 |
SelfControl | 208 |
Success | 210 |
Teaching | 214 |
Temptation | 216 |
Tenacity | 218 |
Thankfulness | 221 |
Time | 223 |
TomorrowToday Yesterday | 227 |
Trouble | 229 |
Truth | 231 |
Vision | 234 |
Wisdom | 236 |
WomanWife | 240 |
Words | 244 |
Prayer 246 Work | 246 |
Preparation 250 Zeal | 250 |
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Lincoln Adversity advice ahead and prepare become wise Benjamin Franklin better blessings bore brings C. S. Lewis Charles Spurgeon Christmas comes common sense conceit confidence conscience Corrie ten Boom courage death everything evil experience face Failure faith father fear feel fellow fool foolish friends future give God's godly goes gossip Happiness hard hear heart honest hope horse sense humor Joseph Joubert Josh Billings judge keep kids kind word laugh lazy listens live look Lord lose man's marriage mind mistakes mother mouth Napoléon Bonaparte never obey optimist Oscar Hammerstein II parents person pessimist plans pray prayer problems promises Psalm quarrel remember Russian proverb says someone stand stay success sure talk teacher tell There's thing Thomas Edison tomorrow trouble trust truth wait wicked wife William Arthur Ward wisdom woman wrong