1. Diet----something to take the startch out of you.
2. "Merry" is a word for Christmas..."happy" is a word for New Year's..."thanks" is a word for all year long. 3. Some kids' idea of a seven-course meal is six cookies and a glass of milk. 4. Always stay on the good side of the cook.
5. A new broom sweeps clean, but the old one knows the corners.
6. Among the more effective labor-saving devices is the neighbor who hasn't returned your gardening tools. 7. The most difficult meal for the average housewife to get is dinner out. 8. A good way to start each day is with your eggs and your face sunny-side up. 9. When speaking, use a grain of sugar; when listening, use a grain of salt. 10. With small children at the dinner table, you get used to whining and dining. 11. The man was wise who prayed over a heavy Thanksgiving table: "God, please grant us one more blessing...a thankful heart." 12. You know you're in a small town when you have to close your car windows and lock the doors to keep friends from filling it with zucchini. 13. Courtship---that short interlude between lipstick and mop stick.
14. With today's higher prices, at least when you don't buy something, you save more than you used to.
15. The rung of the ladder isn't meant to rest upon, but only to hold a person's foot long enough to enable him to put another higher.
16. Anybody who knows everything should be told a thing or two.
17. Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
18. People who like others are people others like.
19. Home is the place where we have to leave to appreciate good food and good beds.
20. Remember what you have been given and forget what you have given.
21. Strange what good cooks mothers are. But mothers-in-law? Never!
22. Nobody has ever come up with a good substitute for friendship.
23. A vicious circle is when the exercising you do to lose weight increases your appetite.
24. Cooked-up excuses usually sound half-baked.
25. A family budget is a process of checks and balances. Unfortunately, the checks always seem to wipe out the balances.
26. Some folks carve their way to success with cutting remarks. 27. If we appreciate what we have, it becomes more; if we belittle what we have, it becomes less.
28. Today is the fruit of yesterday, the seed of tomorrow.
29. Envy eats nothing but it's own heart.
30. Some people think a blanced deit is a burger in each hand.
31. Good character, like good soup, is usually homemade.
32. Home is where you don't have to make reservations in advance.
33. Sour grapes can often be responsible for usetting a lot of apple carts.
34. Happiness is a habit---cultivate it.
35. Remember when health foods where whatever your mother said to eat---or else?
36. Government regulation is alot like ketchup---you either get none or a lot more than you want.
37. People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it. 38. Let no one spoil your celebration of this day---for this day will never come again. 39. A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. 40. It's a toss up as to what concerns us about the groceries we buy today---the price or the ingredients. 41. Four be the things I am wiser to know: idleness, sorrow, a friend and a foe. 42. We may live without friends...we may live without books...but civilized men cannot live without cooks. 43. Thoughtfulness is to friendship as sunshine is to the garden.
44. Keep praying, but be thankful that God's anwsers are wiser than your prayers. 45. To check your resistance, stop at a doughnut shop and only order coffee. 46. There's nothing that upsets a person quite as much as having company drop in and see the house looking as it usually does. 47. Perhaps they call them fast-food restaurants because they spring up like mushrooms. 48. When you don't know what to say, consider the nobility of silence.
49. It's not the food in your life that counts; it's the life in your food.
50. Home is a place our feet may leave but not our hearts.
51. He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster.
52. A penny saved is an art that keeps the budget from falling apart.
53. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
54. It's pretty hard to beat a neighbor who is as generous with his tomatoes as with his zucchini.
55. Bring up your children so someone else will like them besided yourself.
56. A crumb shared is better than a banquet alone.
57. A cheerful conversation is a welcome gift you can share with anyone.
58. Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
59. Kind hearts are the garden; kind thoughts are the roots; kind words are the flowers; kind deeds are the fruit.
60. Breakfast can set the mood of the whole day.
61. Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bar of life.
62. All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
63. Encouragement is like a peanut butter sanwich---the more you spread it around, the better things stick together.
64. If you learn to chuckle at your mistakes, you will never be short of laugh material.
65. Plant carrots in January, and you will never have to eat carrots.
66. Life is fragile---handle with prayer.
67. One thing you learn the hard way is that there is no easy way.
68. The best way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate on doing today's work superbly.
69. You're only cooking up trouble when you stew about tomorrow.>br> 70. "Banana" is an easy word to spell if you know when to stop.
71. When you get too old to set an example, you can start giving advice.
72. Happiness is like honey---you can pass it around but some of it will stick to you.
73. A well-traveled person is one who has been to almost as many places as his luggage.
74. A vegetarian is a person who only eats side dishes.
75. Wear your smile; don't pin it on when you need it.
76. Sometimes just opening the door is the toughest part of the journey.
77. Promises are like snowballs---easy to make but hard to keep.
78. Jelly is the stuff you see on toast, neckties and piano keys.
79. Advice is like cooking---you should try it before you feed it to others.
80. The library is a valuable institution, satisfying our thirst for knowledge, and for some peace and quiet.
81. Some people go anywhere for dinner---except the kitchen.
82. Never let the seed keep you from enjoying the watermelon.
83. The things we sweep under the rug have a disconcerting habit of creeping out on the other side.
84. Giving does not drain our resources, but provides a space for us to refill.
85. It's hard to convince a child that in meetings the day's requiremnet for vegetables, carrot cake doesn't count.
86. Remember when the grocer picked out your items while you waited at the cash register?
87. Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.
88. Is it embarrassment or fear that makes the waitress place the check upside down on your table?
89. Some people eat from 3 basic food groups---canned, frozen, and take-out.
90. Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you get rid of him on weekends.
91. A century ago, America was known as the melting pot. Today, it is more like a pressure cooker.
92. Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best.
93. It's an extra-special occassion these days if it's celebrated by staying home for dinner.
94. Consideration for others can mean taking a wing instead of a drumstick.
95. Home is the only place where you can really enjoy corn on the cob and soup.
96. Vegetarian: a salad citizen.
97. A pinch of probably is worth a pound of perhaps.
98. If you have given up trying to open something, tell a 4 year old not to touch it.
99. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. 100. No person is lonely while eating spaghetti---it requires so much attention.
101. People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame some one else. 102. If yesterday's deeds look too big, you haven't done much today.
103. Nothing improves one's prayer life faster than big trouble.
104. A husband shouldn't question his wife's judgement---look who she married.
105. The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
106. Opportunist---someone who, finding himself in hot water, decides to take a bath.
107. Always borrow from a pessimist...he doesn't expect to get it back.
108. Happiness is like jam---you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
109. Cookbooks are exciting because they contain so many stirring events.
110. When life throws you a curve, it's to teach you how to bend.
111. An optimist is a person who expects the ketchup to come out after 3 shakes.
112. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except learning how to grow in rows.
113. Face powder may win a husband, but it takes baking powder to hold him.
114. A worry a day drains the vitality away.
115. There was a time when the only way you got hot lunch at school was to leave it near the radiator.
116. A fancy restaurant is one where they serve cold soup on purpose.
117. What we need for winter driving is a set of breaks that will stop the cars behind us.
118. Work as though everything depended on you, and pray as though everything depended on God.
119. Family---a group of people, no two of whom like their breakfast eggs cooked the same way.
120. One way to make it easier to live within your means is to make sure that you stick to the grocery list.
121. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. But only God can count the apples in a seed.
122. Cleaning the house while the kids are still growing is like shoveling the walking before it's stopped snowing.
123. Get as much chocolate out of life as you can.
124. There is no such thing as a non-working mother.
125. A house is built by human hands. A home is built by human hearts.
126. A samll town is a place where the supermarket doesn't need an express checkout lane.
127. Don't sit around crying in your soup and then complain that it's too salty.
128. It's the traveling bee that gets the honey.
129. Place a value on yourself, and never mark it down.
130. Prayer should be the key to the day and the lock of the night.
131. Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best.
132. The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
133. Few things are more disillusioning than learning Grandma's old family recipe came from Betty Crocker.
134. Don't miss the plum for want of courage to shake the tree.
135. It is not the quantity of meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast.
136. Many of the things worth doing in this world were declared impossible before they were done.
137. Television opens doors...mostly refrigerators.
138. Life is like a cup of tea...it's how you make it.
139. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
140. If you can smile whenever anything goes wrong, you're either an optimist or a repairman.
141. What counts are not the things you do at Christmas time, but the Christmas things you do all the time.
142. The person who works long hours in the garden is sure of growing one thing.....tired.
143. Anybody who burns the candle at both ends is probably trying to read the menu.
144. It is neither wealth or splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which gives happiness.
145. There is no machine that can take the place of a good neighbor.
146. Don't listen to half-truths; you may get the wrong half.
147. Remember when $8 worth of groceries wouldn't fit into one bag, not to mention one stomach?
148. One resolve is like another---in one year and out the other.
149. Intuition is that strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
150. A wishbone isn't a substitute for a backbone.
151. The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have.
152. Hospitality means treat your company like family and your family like company.
153. Life is like a buffet line---there aren't any waiters, so you have to help yourself.
154. Any trouble too small to take to God in prayer is too small to worry about.
155. Never pick a quarrel---even when it's ripe.
156. A bargin is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
157. If the task is once begun, never leave it 'til it's done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.
158. One of the benefits of inflation is that the kids can no longer get sick on a nickle's worth of candy.
159. Generosity is giving more than you can...pride is taking less than you need.
160. Permitting your life to be taken over by another person is like letting the waiter eat your dinner.
161. Advice is something we give by the bushel but take by the grain.
162. Two eggs talking in a monastery kitchen---"Out of the frying pan and into the friar."
163. Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
164. Watch your pennies...the government will take care of your dollars.
165. A chef is a person with a big enough vocabulary to give the soup a different name every day.
166. That's the problem with a garden---the fruits of your labor are vegetables.
167. You can't get much done by starting tomorrow.
168. Three essential ingredients in the recipe for a happier family life are prayer, patience, and understanding.
169. Give----the days are too short to be shelfish.
170. Stress is like an ice cream cone---you have to learn to lick it.
171. Among the fastest things in the world is the tape coming out of a supermarket cash register.
172. What a piece of bread looks like depneds on whether you are hungry or not.
173. The only commondity that doesn't deteriorate with use is knowledge.
174. A good temper is the chief ingredient of happiness.
175. Why is it those who can wait 3 hours for a fish to bite can't wait 5 minutes for dinner?
176. When friends meet, hearts warm.
177. Everyone knows what a warrenty means---that whatever happens isn't covered.
178. For some people, the first cup of coffee in the morning doesn't have to taste, it just has to work.
179. Three cookies plus two children equal a fight.
180. Eternity is two people and a roast turkey.