Stout Wisdom

What would you do with a friend who had lied to you as many times as your fears have lied to you?

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Biden has a not unrare condition in which the gear box that normally regulates the speed of your mouth has been ground down to a nub…

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

There is a tendency among Christians to get excited about ‘listening to God’…

Kerosene helped wean America (and everyone else) off our “addiction” to whales. Oil and coal helped end our addiction to wood.

The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor.

Complain as little as possible about the wrongs you suffer.

To make an apple pie from scratch — really from scratch — you must first invent the universe.

Members of the ruling class love populism because they think it will help their section of the elite gain power.

The church has become a business that sells Jesus.

Superficiality is the curse of our age.  The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, of gifted people, but for deep people.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.