Redneck Fireplace

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe, is love. - Pearl Bailey

The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. - Unknown

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. - Melba Colgrove

Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is. - Jessica Harrelson

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. - Robert Frost

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. - Seneca

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery

You'll never be as lazy as whoever names the fireplace. - Unknown

Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. - C S Lewis

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match. - Unknown

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. - Eskimo Proverb

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. - Michael Ende

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. - Thomas Fuller

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

We feel free when we escape - even when it be from the frying pan into the fire. - Eric Hoffer

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. - Amelia Barr

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

I took a physical for some life insurance. All they would give me was fire and theft. - Milton Berle

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire, women will like him. - Mae West

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? - Unknown

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Ed Sullivan

Only in peace do we have joy. Not by acquiring things, not by doing things, not by earning or learning, but by dedication. - Swami Satchidananda

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. - C S Lewis

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. - Pope Paul VI

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. - William Blake

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. - Erica Jong

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle. - Neil Armstrong

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell