Frehner Masonry Quotes & Sayings

[U]sefulness is happiness, and ... all other things are but incidental. — Lydia M. Child

When God doesn't send an angel, sometimes He sends a friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo

we don't get to choose what trials we will face. We can only choose how we will face them. — Andrew Hunter

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A nation without heroes is nothing. — Roberto Clemente

Its always do this do that everthing they want i dont want to live that way every chance they get there always pushin me away — Five Finger Death Punch

I can see every monster as they come in. — Truman Capote

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now. — Joseph Mitchell

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending. — David Limbaugh

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love
But for livin' I was born. — Langston Hughes

And then, on September 11, the world fractured.
It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow
the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction. — Barack Obama

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me ... a relaxation ... I get my ideas from everyday events. — Matthew Ashford

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here. — Ed Rendell

My arrival
Her womb's delight
Her existence
My living light
Her wounds
My scars
Her skies
My stars
Her days
My hours
Her strength
My powers
I breathe my name
Being her child
Without mother
Life's beguiled
From the poem 'Mother — Munia Khan

Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight inkling of beauty and reality. This is most discouraging to a creative writer, like you, and also to a hardworking and devoted editor like me. I love most of my editor colleagues but I must confess that I get a little depressed and sad when some of their neat little items about a little girl in old Newburyport during the War of 1812 gets [sic] adopted by a Reading Circle. — Leonard S. Marcus