Quotes from Anonymous

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.

Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

No pleasure without pain.

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?

Happy is he that chastens himself.

Better be happy than wise.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.

To improve your memory, lend people money.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.