Short Sayings

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.  ~Chinese Proverb

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.  ~Elwyn Brooks White

Life is simple, it’s just not easy.  ~Author Unknown

A life without cause is a life without effect.  ~Barbarella

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.  ~Richard Bach

Life’s not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.  ~Terri Guillemets

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.  ~Jack Handey

Life is a foreign language:  all men mispronounce it.  ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

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