One Liners (u - wha)
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| Ulcers are caused not so much by what we eat as what's eating us.
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| Ulcers are something you get from mountain climbing over molehills.
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| Under capitalism man exploits man. Under socialism it's just the opposite. (Anon)
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| Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean which defies
resistance. (E. M. Bounds)
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| Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. (Ronald E. Osborn)
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| Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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Utility is when you have one telephone,
luxury is when you have two,
and paradise is when you have none.
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| Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
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Vacation spots that are out of the way,
Are much in favor with travelers today;
Some find them by planning trips at great cost,
And others just by getting lost.
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Veni, Vidi, Visa:
I Came. I Saw. I Shopped.
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| Victor Borge told a friend that he could tell time by his piano. His friend was incredulous, so Borge volunteered to demonstrate. He pounded out a crashing march. Immediately there came a banging on the wall and a shrill voice screamed, "Stop that noise. Don't you know it's 1:30 in the morning?"
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| Victory begins with the name of Jesus on our lips, but it will not be consummated until the nature of Jesus is in our hearts.
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| Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Never let your morals stop you from doing what is right. (Isaac Asimov)
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| Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be.
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Vision that looks inward becomes duty.
Vision that looks outward becomes aspiration.
Vision that looks upward becomes faith
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| Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. (Japanese proverb)
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| Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
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| Walk the words you talk and talk the words you walk.
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| War never decides who is right, only who is left.
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Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny!!!
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| We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads. (Vlade Divac)
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| We all live under the same sky, but we don't see the same horizon.
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| Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom.
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| We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other. (Luciano DeCrescenzo)
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| We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. (Oswald Chambers)
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We are never nowhere.
We are always now here.
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| We blame fate for other accidents, but we feel personally responsible when we make a hole in one.
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| We buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't know. (Dr. Larry Lea)
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| We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.
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| We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. (Michel de Montaigne)
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| We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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| We can only create what we can imagine. (Robert B. Mackay)
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| We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
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| We can't control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.
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| We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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| We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. (La Rochefoucauld)
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| We could accomplish a lot more if we'd get rid of our ifs and and's; and get off our butts.
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| We could all take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to
criticism.
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We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colours.
But they all have to learn to live in the same box.
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| We crucify ourselves between two thieves- regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
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| We don't have the right to ask when sorrow comes: Why did this happen to me?, unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
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| We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
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| We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
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| We don't want a thing because we have found a reason for it- we find a reason for it because we want it.
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We do three kinds of jobs, cheap, quick, and good.
You can have any two:
A good, quick job-won't be cheap.
A good job, cheap-won't be quick.
A cheap job, quick-won't be good.
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| We do what we believe, the rest is just a bunch of religious talk.
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| We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. (University of Cambridge Professor Robert Silensky)
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| We have all heard that there are two sides to every story, but after listening to many husband and wife arguments I have come to realize there are three sides to every story, her side, his side, and the truth.
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| We have a strange and wonderful relationship: He's strange and I'm wonderful. (Mike Ditka, on Jim McMahon)
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| We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. (Ancient Proverb)
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| We have stopped being fishers of men and we are now the keepers of the
aquarium.
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We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers,
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints,
We spend more but have less,
We buy more but enjoy it less.
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| We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions.
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| We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
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| Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin)
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| We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. (G. K. Chesterton)
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| We may not be what we want to be, but thank God we are not what we used to be. (Tim Storey)
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| We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King)
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| We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin, 1776)
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| We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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| We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown. (William Booth)
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| We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to find a place where we can be alone. (St Teresa of Avila)
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| We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. (French proverb)
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| We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. (Bryan White)
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| We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
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| We often fear being rejected so very much that we reject ourselves first before anyone else has the chance.
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| We often see further through a tear, than through a telescope.
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| We only grow when we step outside our comfort zone.
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| We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. (Mother Teresa)
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| We see things not as they are, but as we are.
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| We should keep so close to the facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. (F. Marion Smith)
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| We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys. (Charles Swindoll)
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| We spent our whole youth to obtain wealth and our whole wealth to obtain youth.
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| We take risks not to escape life but to prevent that live escapes us.
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| We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, have been asked to do so much with so little for so long that we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
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| We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk.
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| We want to have a testimony, but we don't want the test.
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| We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
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| What a dog I got. His favourite bone is in my arm!
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| What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. (Liz Carpenter)
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"What are you doing?" a man asked of three laborers beside a building under construction.
The first man replied, "Stone-cuttin."
The second smiled, "Putting in time until a better job comes along."
The third man waited a moment and then said simply, "I m building a cathedral."
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| What boys say to girls.
- Did it hurt? ("Did what hurt?") When you fell out of heaven.
- Did you know they changed the alphabet? They put U and I together.
- Can I borrow that quarter? Because my mom told me to call home when I fell
in love.
- What's wrong? You're looking a little sad and gloomy. What you need is
some vitamin me.
- Are your legs tired? Because you been running through my mind ALL day
long.
- Are you lost? Because it's so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.
- What's that in your eye? Oh...it's a sparkle.
- Can I see that label? I just wanted to know if you were made in heaven.
- Could I get some directions? ("To where?") To your heart.
- I wish I was one of your tears, so I could be born in your eye, run down
your cheek, and die on your lips.
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What do Windows and a handgun have in common?
Both are harmless while not loaded.
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| Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now.. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. (Goethe)
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| What flowers grow between your nose and your chin? .... Tulips.
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"What, giving again?" I asked in dismay.
"And must I keep giving and giving away?"
"Oh, no," said the angel, piercing me through,
"Just give till the Father stops giving to you."
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| What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.
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| What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. (Hugh Mulligan)
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| What is done now, is influenced by what you did then, and will determine what you do when now is then.
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| What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
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What is the difference between a happy husband and a jilted lover?
One kisses his missus, and, the other misses the kisses.
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What is the difference between a Peeping Tom and someone who's just got out of the bath?
One is rude and nosy, and the other's nude and rosy.
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What is the most important thing to learn in chemistry?
Never lick the spoon.
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| What is worth having is worth waiting for.
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| What lies behind ourselves and what lies ahead of ourselves are small
matters compared to what lies within ourselves. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| What now is proved was once only imagined. (William Blake)
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| What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
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| What really matters is what happens in us- not to us.
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| What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
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| What some people mistake for the high cost of living, is really the cost of living high.
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| What sunshine is to flowers...smiles are to humanity.
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| What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.
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| What we do in life, echoes in eternity. (Russell Crowe, Gladiator)
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| What we fight against defines us as clearly as all we embrace.
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| What we see is mainly what we look for.
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| What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
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| What you do when you don't have to do it will determine what you are when it's too late to do anything about it!
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| What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
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