Words I Wrote along the Way

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By Dennis F. McCorkle


Some Proverbs and Sayings

  1. Some days you can clear a forest, other days a blade of grass
  2. It is always a blessing when the Lord sends a breeze to a ship whose sails are without breath and returns the vessel to safe harbor once again.
  3. The rich can afford to be rude, the poor are obligated not to
  4. Sex is never casual
  5. The value of a dollar is totally dependant on how many you have
  6. What would Spring be like without flowers and a young lady to give them to
  7. Facts are the bricks of understanding
    Understanding is the ability to conceptualize what to do with the bricks
    Wisdom is the implementation of what was conceptualized
    And the beginning of all wisdom is the fear of God
  8. Our lives are the sum total of all our experiences and expectations
  9. When diagramming a sentence, use only one line - Jim Shea
  10. What we do today changes how tomorrow unfolds
  11. Knowledge is an experience that may or may not be based upon correct assumptions or truth
  12. Expectations are those small voices of hope that resonate the strings of our lives
  13. A lifetime is built one day at a time
  14. Measure twice, cut once - old-Time saying
  15. Take one day, one minute, one second at a time - Jesus
  16. Ideas, like flowers need a chance to grow.
    All the effort in the world cannot make the grass grow greener or quicker
  17. Science is the name we give to God's miracles - Eureka SciFi network
  18. Not understanding something is an understanding in itself.
  19. "Let no man think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works, but rather let man endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both." - Francis Bacon - quoted by Darwin in his The Origin of Species

Copyright © 2007 by Dennis F. McCorkle