AFTERLIFE
AFTERLIFE
As Vice President, George Bush represented the U.S. at the funeral of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. B...
AFFLUENCE
AFFLUENCE
The trouble is that too many people Are spending money They haven't yet earned For things they don'...
AFFIRMATION
AFFIRMATION
Recently, I heard a touching story which illustrates the power that words have to change a life -- a power ...
ADVICE
ADVICE
We could all save ourselves a lot of words if we'd only remember that people rarely take advice unless they...
ADVERTISING
ADVERTISING
Bombeck's Rule of Medicine: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bo...
ADVERSITY
ADVERSITY
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for...
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
Several years ago, I heard the story of Larry Walters, a 33-year-old man who decided he wanted to see his nei...
ADVANTAGE
ADVANTAGE
One of the golfers on the pro tour some years ago was a pompous egomaniac with the emotional maturity of a si...
ADULTERY
ADULTERY
Long ago Demosthenes had written: "We keep prostitutes for pleasure; we keep mistresses for the day to day nee...
ADMONITION
ADMONITION
He was graduated from the finest four-star Christian college. The product of a distinguished evangelical chu...
ADMIRATION
ADMIRATION
A young couple who had just witnessed a Bill Cosby performance went backstage hoping to get the comedian...
ADJUSTMENT
ADJUSTMENT
Life is a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn't expected.
ADDICTION
ADDICTION
Alan Lang, in his "Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior" report to the National Academy of Science, identifi...
ADAM
ADAM
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
Mark Twain....
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
"It is an old ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
Rollo May....
ACTION
ACTION
Several years ago, I heard the story of Larry Walters, a 33-year-old man who decided he wanted to see his neighb...
ACQUAINTANCE
ACQUAINTANCE
A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose B...
ACHIEVEMENT
ACHIEVEMENT
Visiting a village school one day, King Oscar II of Sweden asked the pupils to name the greatest kings of S...
ACCUSATION, false
ACCUSATION, false
John was driving home late one night when he picked up a hitchhiker. As they rode along, he began to ...
ACCURACY
ACCURACY
Time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Formerly the National Bureau of Standard...