Macpherson Funeral Home Quotes & Sayings

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter. — George Carlin

Mystics were about as common as two-headed unicorns. The few who existed lived apart from the world of men, remaining untainted by influence and corruption. Having a wolf as her best friend demonstrated the sort of wisdom he appreciated. — Michael J. Sullivan

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. — Joseph Lancaster

The most calamitous failures of prediction usually have a lot in common. We focus on those signals that tell a story about the world as we would like it to be, not how it really is. We ignore the risks that are hardest to measure, even when they pose the greatest threats to our well-being. We make approximations and assumptions about the world that are much cruder than we realize. We abhor uncertainty, even when it is an irreducible part of the problem we are trying to solve. — Nate Silver

I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others. — Joyce Meyer

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility. — Martin E. Marty

The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always. — Walter Savage Landor

What are the chances there is a God, really? — Sarah Silverman

Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely outcome whenever architects skilfully mediate between any number of oppositions, including the old and the new, the natural and the man-made, the luxurious and the modest, and the masculine and the feminine. — Alain De Botton

The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life. — Chuck Palahniuk

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. — John Gay

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all. — Rebecca Goldstein