I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

I can longer put any fiscal confidence in the government.

"If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand." ~Dave Ramsey

Just because you are a character doesn't mean that you have character.

I grew up hearing this and just assumed Grandma Hartman made it up. However, I didn't realize until now that Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was stealing her material.

Oh! what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!

-from Marmion, Canto VI. Stanza 17.

If you're looking for a Clydesdale, I'm probably not your man.

Some great advice to live by:

• Don't look for something in the Law which can only be found in the Gospel.
• Don't look in yourself for what can only be found in Christ.
• Don't look in your fellow creatures for which is only found in the Creator.
• Don't look on earth for what is only to be found in Heaven.

-William Jay, of Bath England

(HT Bob Helmick, Providence Church elder)