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No kettle is so crooked you can't find a lid to fit it.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

A lousy carpenter will always blame his tools.

If all you have in hand is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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This is a quote from FB Meyer:
The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.
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Signtist wrote:No kettle is so crooked you can't find a lid to fit it.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

A lousy carpenter will always blame his tools.

If all you have in hand is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Ouch!
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You can lead a horse to drink but you can't make him water.

:? or was it the other way around ? :lol:
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Sudsy wrote:You can lead a horse to drink but you can't make him water.

:? or was it the other way around ? :lol:
Give him some salt and you'll make him thirsty, though.
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“A honey tongue, a heart of gall, is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.”
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God
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"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
C.S. Lewis
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Mt 24:35
Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God
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This is a "new saying" for me, but one i hope to remember often:

"When i woke today, i opened 2 gifts from God." :D
- "My eyes."
8-)
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"If you have nothing nice to say to another, say nothing at all."
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MaxPC wrote:"If you have nothing nice to say to another, say nothing at all."
Old? That's straight out of Disney!
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