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follies man
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. Josh Billings
follies gives people wonderful
To a lot of people they really are just follies but this one is much more interesting and it gives a wonderful view. Princess Anne
follies laugh people power satire
I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power. Rory Bremner
follies full good opened palm sure
No one thought the (Fabulous Palm Springs) Follies would do as well as it has (when it opened 10 years ago). I'm not sure they (Cirque Dreams) will be full every night, but ... it's going to be good for the merchants. Mike Harris
follies injustices
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental Thomas H. Huxley
laughing waiting cry
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait. Charles Dickens
laughing soul enemy
My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy. Charles Spurgeon
laughter littles rotten
A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.
laughter believe miracle
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence. Alan Watts
laughter real anxiety
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
laughing belly belly-laughs
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. Alan Bradley
laughing doubt independence
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself. Alan Alda
laughter laughing doubt
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
laughter tears may
May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears! Aiden Wilson Tozer
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. Charles Studd
people littles controversy
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. Charles Stross
people church opinion
I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church. Charles Stanley
people waiting lord
The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
people sin made
People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
powerful power negative
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
satire shots
There's a lot of satire in Mardi Gras. We also take shots at ourselves. We may be down but we're not out. G. H. Hardy
satire hated shows
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O'Connor
satire pornography humans
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. Angela Carter
satire audience ifs
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. Gore Vidal
satire effects
Satire doesn't effect change. P. J. O'Rourke
satire twisted wizard
It's satire it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.
satire dunces
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. Jonathan Swift
satire humour enjoy
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. Dario Fo
satire censored
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. Karl Kraus