the armor of god

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon



The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ~G.K. Chesterton The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. ~Arthur Miller, After the Fall, 1964



Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ~Victoria Secunda



Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb



A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson



The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~Henry Louis Mencken



Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ~John Ray



Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare



The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer



In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. ~Author Unknown



Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch



The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman



On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club



The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. ~Elbert Hubbard



If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. ~Robert Kirby



If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry? ~Author Unknown



What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen (Also not about Arizona, but fitting!) What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen



Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks