I was recently cleaning out a box and found an old song book that I had removed from an abandoned house when I was about 14 and really never payed much attention to it. I found it in a box and opened it up to find some very interesting lyrics to older songs some of which I knew others which I never had heard of. This song book belonged to the lady who was a school teacher and had lived in this house for a long time. When the flood of 1993 came through she went off and left the house and all the contents. With the song book I took an old box camera, a deck of cards, and her diary. Yeah I know shallow to take her diary but she was never coming back there she had already passed away.
So back to the song book, I opened it last night for about the 3rd or 4th time since I have had it and noticed in the front of the book and the first few pages some simple quotes and food for thoughts I guess she had put in there to make her laugh or think, who knows but I feel like these need to be shared. Most of them are true to an extent..others are just plain funny.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I did last night.
*If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense in making them.
*The way of the transgressor my be hard--but it isn't lonely.
*People who get down to brass tacks usually rise rapidly.
*A local man says he's reached the most disappointing period of his life---his wife now trusts him.
*Conscience is what makes you tell your wife before someone else does.
*It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect I am in no danger of marrying one.
*In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone-but sometimes it is a great relief.
*Come to think of it, Adam was the world's first electronics engineer. He furnished spare parts for the first loud speaker.
*But the selection is of the utmost importance. The smart girl looks for kindness and integrity. She chooses someone she can respect and believe in, someone she can talk to and someone she can count on for emotional support--and someone to whom she can give emotional support when the situation requires it.
*Advance notice to a prospective bride: I've learned in the years I've been married, There are few problems in life that a man doesn't blame on the goverment. They're the ones he can blame on his wife.
*A friend is one before whom I may think aloud
*A woman looks more beautiful just after making love than at any other time.
*Those who believe confessions are good for the soul learn to their sorrow that they can be very bad for a marriage.
*The best excuse in the world for a man to crawl into somebody else's bed is because he was kicked out of his own.
*Memo to motorists: Drive carefully---don't insist on your rites
*Man at county clerks window: "I want to inquire how soon my marriage license expires."
*No life is over until the final curtain is drawn.
*By the time we get old enough not to care what anyone says about us nobody says anything.
*Your loss of faith in mankind is a reflection of your lost faith in yourself.
*You're always right when you're loving, and you're always wrong when you're not.
*Now you can tell if a girl is knock-kneed just by looking. Used to be you had to listen.
*A need is something you must satisfy . A want is something you'd like to satisfy.
*There is nothing final about a mistake except it's being taken as final.
*Experience isn't what happens to you; experience is what you make out of what happens to you.
*If a man knows not and knows not that he knows not, shun him. If a man knows not, and knows he knows not, teach him. If a man knows, and knows that he knows, follow him.
*How is it that just being a man makes you an authority on women...especially on me???
*A man needs to know that he is loved, but a woman needs to be told that she is loved.
*Drive so your driver's liscense will expire before you do.
*If you drink like a fish, SWIM---don't drive.
*Admire a woman for her beauty, respect her for her intelligence, adore her for her charm, BUT love her because you can't help it.
*The best medicine to take is yourself---with a grain of salt.
*It's up to the man to decide which is more important to him in his woman: the "packaging" or the "contents of the package"
*The only people YOU can hurt are the ones who love you. The only people who can hurt you are the ones YOU love. The rest just make you angry and/or irritated.
*We crucify ourselves between two thieves each day : REGRET FOR YESTERDAY and FEAR FOR TOMORROW!
*The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and watch somebody do it wrong without giving advice!
*When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
*Certainly you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Quite a few of them are busy fooling you.
*A tease is a girl who's always thinking of a man's happiness....and how to prevent it.
*A gossiper is someone who puts one and one together..even if they're not.
*Sleep...that which, if you don't get enough of, you wake up half-a!
*You know you've reached middle age when you'd rather not have a good time than to have to recover from it.
*The perfect gift for a man who has everything would be a girl who knows what to do with it.
*The irate wife berating husband on way home from party: "You certainly made a fool of yourself tonight! It's a good think those people didn't realize you were sober!"
*The good lord didn't make me perfect, so he gave you the ability to overlook some of my faults.
*Don't be short-tempered with people who know less than you...after all it isn't their fault.
*Some people sow their wild oats on Saturday night, and then go to church on Sunday to pray for a crop failure.
*He who keeps himself in a stew eventually goes to pot.
*Honey, I know as a woman I'm not much, but I'm the best other sex you've got.
*A cocktail lounge is a half-lit room full of half-lit people
*A cemetary is a place filled with people who thought the world couldn't get alont withouth them.
*Don't be upset when people differ with you...After all they have a right to their own stupid opinion.
*Always put off until tomorrow what your are going to make a mess of today.
*A grouch is a person who has taken a good close look at himself and is pretty sore about what he has seen.
*The man who has secrets from his wife either has no secrets or no wife.
*Love they neighbor but don't let it get around.
*You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nest in your hair.
*One thing wrong with the younger generation is that many of us dont belong to it anymore.
*The guy wh horses around with the gals may one day find that he is a groom.
*Remember, gun powder and alcohol don't mix. It won't shoot worth a dern, and it tastes awful.
*Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
*Success is getting what you want; Happiness is wanting what you get.
*An experience for which I am thankful: the gratitude for my secret bond with deity, that, here on earth, my life hold some privacy and that no on knows my awful secrets totally except him in his faraway heaven.
*One advantage of being married is that you don't often make a fool of yourself without finding out about it right away!
*As years of matrimony roll on: a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use!
*A pessimist feels that all women are bad, an optimist hopes so.
*Conscience is the thing that hurts so bad when everything else feels so good.
*A smart girl is one who can hold a man at arm's length without losing her grip on him.
*The man who spends his life building walls instead of bridges has no right to complain if he is lonely.
*Firmness is that quality in ourselves that we call stubbornness in our neighbors.
*Water is ice that has lost its cool.
*There was the fellow who gave up smoking and took up chewing tooth picks instead. Now he's got Dutch Elm Disease.
*A sermon can help people in different ways...Some rise from it greatly strengthened, others wake up from it greatly refreshed.
*It's amazing how many millions spend money on pills...to sleep, and other millions spend money on coffee..to keep awake.
*There's a reason why it's illegal for a man to have more than one wife. The law protects those who are unable to protect themselves.
*Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is a progress, working together is a success.
*It isn't your position that makes you happy or unhappy. It's your disposition.
*Both sugar and vinegar are preservatives, so it seems to boiled down to whether you want to be pickled or in a jam.
*Middle age is that time of life when you can feel bad in the morning withouth having had fun the night before.
*All things are possible to him who believes! They are less difficult to him who hopes, they are easy to him who loves, and they are simple to anyone who does all three.
*The more you give the more you get, the more you laugh the less you fret, the more you do unselfishly the more you love abundantly, the more of everything you share the more you'll always have to spare, the more you love the more you'll find that life is good and friends are kind. For only what we give away enriches us from day to day.
*The trouble with champagne at a party is that it makes married men see double but feel single.
*Middle age is that time in life when you have only half as much fun and it takes you twice as long to get over it.
*For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
*The time to make friends is before you need them.
*You have only one chance to make a good first impression.
*Some people can't tell the difference between working up steam and generating a fog.
*Minds are like parachutes...they only function when open.
*Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value out of joy you must divide it with someone.
*By the time you reach the stage in life were you'd like to burn the candle at both ends you usually don't have enough spark left to light it.
*Did you ever lie so convincingly that you even believed yourself?
*Did you ever sit down and decide it was time to have a talk with yourself but find yourself not really listening at all to what you thought you had to say?
*You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
*Some people just shift their brains into neutral and let their tongues idle on and on...
*People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
*The big fish always get away. That's why they are big.
*The reason it is so hard to reason with our children is that they are so much like adults
*The person who can be bought sooner or later gives himself away.
*It's extremely difficult for a person to get his desires and his conscience tuned to the same wave length.
*To permit others to be happy in their own way is tolerance at the highest level.
*To size up a man add what his mother thinks about him to what his mother-in-law thinks, then divide by two.
*A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something which would make you mad if it happened to you.
*You'll never stumble on to anything good while sitting down.
*No two people have the same capacity to love...therefore we judge others only by our own degree of ability... and too often are mistaken about the depth of another's emotion.
*To those that believe-no explanation is necessary and to those who don't believe no explanation is possible.
*I hate to think of the things I should have said... and haven't, and I also hate to think of the things I have said..and shouldn't.
*We judge other by our own yardstick. But we can't use that yardstick unless we bring it out where everyone else can see it.
*Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and, therefore, never send to know for whome the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
*When you are arguing with a fool, two fools are arguing.
*The trouble with people who drink like a fish is that they don't drink what a fish drinks.
*There are a lot of children who don't believe that some day they will be as dumb as their parents.
*A class reunion is a time when old schoolmates get tgether to find out who is falling apart.
*Beware of half-truths..you may get the wrong half.
*When you point a finger at someone else, take a look at your hand. You'll see that three fingers are pointing back at you.
*There's one sure thing about the reward for careless driving: if you keep on asking for it, you'll get it.
*There are people in this world who if they are your friends you don't have any need for enemies.
*Horse sense is what keeps you from sowing too many wild oats.
*A loose wheel isn't nearly as dangerous as a tight driver.
*Men, in the pursuit of happiness sometimes look for it in mighty strange places.
*No one can make a fool of you without your consent.
*Swallowing angry words is much easier then having to eat them.
*Fortunate is he who learned the difference between romance and love, attractiveness and beauty, age and maturity, prosperity and success, knowledge and wisdom.
*The easiest way to break a habit is to drop it suddenly.
*One thing nice about telling the truth is that it saves wear and tear on your imagination.
*Never trust a man who says he is the boss around the house...He'll lie about other things too.
*Too often the modern woman needs only two friends...one to talk about and one to talk to.
So here it is my blog about this. I hope you took the time to sit here and read each one of these as I am sure you will find some amusing, some true, some you can apply in life, some you can compare to your friends, and some just plain downright senseless.
I will tell you this much the lady that took the time to write these or find them really must have lived a good life if she went by what they said. After reading her diary I was able to find so much more about her and her lifestyle. She was a lady in her mid 20's as a teacher trying to make it by. She drove an old Pontiac to and from school everyday and had a love interest in the army named John. She talked highly of this man and how he would come to visit her on his stays home. She did normal things we do now days, went to the store, cooked supper, played cards with friends..back when a time was so much simpler. She had her heart broken and she played piano every Tuesday night for her friend Mary. I know this as I have read her diary many times. It just seems so unreal for a woman of her age and style to have so much knowledge but she does and she lived a very interesting life style. For this being said I dedicate this blog to her memory to Edna Marie Warren.
