Humorous Quotes attributed to Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Clergyman & Writer

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Freedom and War)

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Eyes and ears)

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. (Life Thoughts)

In the morning, we carry the world, like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground. (Life Thoughts)

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. (Life Thoughts)

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. (Star Papers)

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. (Life Thoughts)

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Life Thoughts)

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. (Life Thoughts)

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

There are many persons who think that Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. (Life Thoughts)

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Whether they shall confess their faults or not, men generally leave to their moods, and not to their principles. (Life Thoughts)

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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