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"Pointing a finger at someone means three will be pointing back at you."

MaxPC wrote:"Pointing a finger at someone means three will be pointing back at you."

And your thumb points upward... God is always a witness.

He who constantly criticizes his inferiors, doesn't have any.


Advice is often what we ask for when we already know the answer and wish we didn't.


Mom to her little boy, "I know you played with your trains today, you left your tracks all over the house."

An old Anabaptist (or Old Order) saying: the more learned, the more confused.

"You're only as happy as your saddest child."

"Man plans and God laughs".

MaxPC wrote:"You're only as happy as your saddest child."

I'm glad that this saying is not totally true. I would be of all men most miserable. Jesus lifts me out of those doldrums, even while I hurt for my children and continue to pray for them.

"A dog without teeth will also attack a bone."

"A great doctor is accompanied by a great angel."

GC, I think we all keep our children in prayer but we also stand back to let God teach them what they need to know-a tough assignment for loving parents.

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward."
Benjamin Franklin

old:
"scarcer than hen's teeth" ..
"a stitch in time, saves nine" ..
"in two shakes of a lamb's tale" ..
"once in a blue moon" ..
"don't cry over spilt milk" ..

from antiquity:
"spare the rod, spoil the child" ..
"children should be seen, but not heard" ..

Why put off till tomorrow, what you can put off till the day after...

If a man is full of himself, there's no room left for God.