Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

-Mark Twain Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence. -Byron Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. -Elliot Paul A good woman is like a good book: entertaining, inspiring, and instructive; some times a bit too wordy, but when properly bound and decorated, irresistible. -Ma rcus Long A woman either loves or hates: there is no third possibility. -Publilius Syrus Most women are at their best when the chips are down. Women operate best when th ey are needed. -Earl Nightingale When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. -Victor Hugo The motions of her mind were as incalculable at the flit of a bird. -Edith Whar ton There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dorman t in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -Washington Irving Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered. -William Makepeace Thacke ray Let no man value at little price a virtuous woman's counsel. -George Chapman To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity for an hour. -William Blake We took time to pause and let the wonder in. -Charles Swindoll We need a renaissance of wonder, We need to renew, in our hearts and in our soul s, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is mir acle and magic. -E. Merrill Root An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creat iveness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. -Thomas Mann Script (Words) have a life of their own. Each lives and breaths it's own life. definiti ve recommendations Words are the tools of thinking. -Dr. Wilfred Funk & Norman Lewis Think of your words as hurled sticks and stones for they can be every bit as hur ting--maybe more so. -Fred Bauer Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. -The Bible, Proverbs 12:18. When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of wor ds is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems e ffectively but their shape and luster have been given by the attrition of ages. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Words are but pictures of our thoughts. -John Dryden Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear. -Joub ert Let us use them as we would use gold, handle them as though they were diamonds, choice things. To many people words are just as common as dirt. Others consider them a little more valuable, but the wise man is careful of words. -E. W. Kenyo n But words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought , produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -Byron The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the differenc e between lightning and the lightning bug. -Mark Twain But a man's speech does more than lend him distinction. It does more than reveal to others what manner of man he is. It is an instrument as well as an index. It is an agent--oftentimes indeed it is the agent--of his influence upon others. H ow silly are those persons who oppose words to things, as if words were not thin gs at all but air-born unrealities! Words are among the most powerful realities in the world . . . Words not realities? With what realities must we more careful

ly reckon? Words are as dangerous as dynamite, as beneficent as brotherhood. An unfortunate word may mean a plea rejected, an enterprise baffled, half the world plunged into war. A fortunate word may open a triple-barred door, avert a disas ter, bring thousands of people from jealousy and hatred into cooperation and goo dwill. -Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor I have continually tried translating in a pure and accurate German. It has happe ned that I have sometimes searched and inquired about a single word for three or four weeks. Sometimes I have not found it even then. I have worked Meister Phil ip and Aurogallus so hard in translating Job, sometimes barely translating 3 lin es after four days. Now that it has been translated into German and completed, a ll can read and criticize it. One can now read three or four pages without stumb ling one time - without realizing just what rocks and hindrances had once been w here now one travels as as if over a smoothly-cut plank. We had to sweat and toi l there before we removed those rocks and hindrances, so one could go along nice ly. The plowing goes nicely in a clear field. But nobody wants the task of diggi ng out the rocks and hindrances. There is no such thing as earning the world's t hanks. Even God cannot each thanks, not with the sun, nor with heaven and earth, or even the death of his Son. It just is and remains as it is, in the devil's n ame, as it will not be anything else. -Martin Luther A translator must have a large vocabulary so he can have more words for when a p articular one just does not fit in the context. -Martin Luther We do not have to ask about the literal Latin or how we are to speak German - as these asses do. Rather we must ask the mother in the home, the children on the street, the common person in the market about this. We must be guided by their t ongue, the manner of their speech, and do our translating accordingly. Then they will understand it and recognize that we are speaking German to them. -Martin Luther The literal Latin is a great barrier to speaking proper German. -Martin Luther Work and love--these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. -Theodore Reik Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. -H.L. Hunt To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight. -William Shakespeare Not to be occupied and not to exist amount to the same thing. -Voltaire Lift where you stand. -Edward Everett Hale