A SIGN IN FRONT OF A BUSINESS IN FLORIDA!

By Terry Orr

(Thanks Bruce for sharing this email.)

Thought this was cute.  Don't forget to scroll all the way down.

This sign was prominently displayed in front of a Business in Florida and you are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory sign.

However, we are a society, which holds Freedom of Speech as one of our greatest liberties. ​ And after all, it is only a sign, right?

You may ask: "What kind of business would dare ​​post such a sign?"

  

Answer: A Funeral Home! ​

Yo​u gotta love it!!!

The best sermons are lived not preached

Thanks to John C.

1. Today, I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research paper I'm working on for my Psychology class. When I asked her to define success in her own words, she said, "Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile."

2. Today, I asked my mentor - a very successful businessman in his 70's- what his top 3 tips are for success. He smiled and said, "Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing."

3. Today, after a 72-hour shift at the fire station, a woman ran up to me at the grocery store and gave me a hug. When I tensed up, she realized I didn't recognize her. She let go with tears of joy in her eyes and the most sincere smile and said, "On 9-11-2001, you carried me out of the World Trade Center."

4. Today, after I watched my dog get run over by a car, I sat on the side of the road holding him and crying. And just before he died, he licked the tears off my face.

5. Today at 7AM, I woke up feeling ill, but decided I needed the money, so I went into work. At 3PM I got laid off. On my drive home I got a flat tire. When I went into the trunk for the spare, it was flat too. A man in a BMW pulled over, gave me a ride, we chatted, and then he offered me a job. I start tomorrow.

6. Today, as my father, three brothers, and two sisters stood around my mother's hospital bed, my mother uttered her last coherent words before she died. She simply said, "I feel so loved right now. We should have gotten together like this more often."

7. Today, I kissed my dad on the forehead as he passed away in a small hospital bed. About 5 seconds after he passed, I realized it was the first time I had given him a kiss since I was a little boy.

8. Today, in the cutest voice, my 8-year-old daughter asked me to start recycling. I chuckled and asked, "Why?" She replied, "So you can help me save the planet." I chuckled again and asked, "And why do you want to save the planet?" Because that's where I keep all my stuff," she said.

9. Today, when I witnessed a 27-year-old breast cancer patient laughing hysterically at her 2-year-old daughter's antics, I suddenly realized that I need to stop complaining about my life and start celebrating it again.

10. Today, a boy in a wheelchair saw me desperately struggling on crutches with my broken leg and offered to carry my backpack and books for me. He helped me all the way across campus to my class and as he was leaving he said, "I hope you feel better soon."

11. Today, I was feeling down because the results of a biopsy came back malignant. When I got home, I opened an e-mail that said, "Thinking of you today. If you need me, I'm a phone call away." It was from a high school friend I hadn't seen in 10 years.

12. Today, I was traveling in Kenya and I met a refugee from Zimbabwe. He said he hadn't eaten anything in over 3 days and looked extremely skinny and unhealthy. Then my friend offered him the rest of the sandwich he was eating. The first thing the man said was, "We can share it."

The best sermons are lived, not preached

GREAT TRUTHS

By Terry Orr

(Sharing another email from Nancy – Thanks)

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. ~ John Adams

 

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. ~ Mark Twain

 

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. ~ Mark Twain

 

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~Winston Churchill

 

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ~ George Bernard Shaw

 

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ~ G. Gordon Liddy

 

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ~James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

 

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.     ~ Douglas Case, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University.

 

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ~ Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)

 

11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. 

If it keeps moving, regulate it.

And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

~Ronald Reagan (1986)

 

12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ~ Will Rogers

 

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! ~ P. J. O'Rourke

 

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. ~Voltaire (1764)

 

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! ~ Pericles (430 B.C.)

 

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.  ~ Mark Twain (1866)

 

17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. ~ Anonymous

 

18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. ~ Ronald Reagan

 

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. ~ Winston Churchill

 

20. The only difference between a taxman and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. ~ Mark Twain

 

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

 

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. ~ Mark Twain

 

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ~Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

 

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.  ~ Thomas Jefferson

 

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop

 

FIVE BEST SENTENCES

 

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

 

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!

 

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this?

Neither could I.