The Wish I Said That items below are used with the permission of the author Ralph Milton.

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WISH I SAID THAT… 36

A leader is best when people barely know the leader exists, when the leader's work is done, their aim fulfilled, the people will say: "We did it ourselves."
Lao Tzu via Evelyn McLachlan

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.
Barbara Kingslover via Bob Warrick

It is only the love of the giver that atones for the insult of the gift.
African proverb via Clare Neufeld

WISH I SAID THAT… 37

A journey of a thousand miles begins with someone saying, "I know a shortcut!"
source unknown via Velia Watts

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer also via Velia

The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: To err, and err, and err again. But less, and less, and less.
Piet Hein

WISH I SAID THAT… 38

When you're in deep water, the best thing to do is shut your mouth.
Author unknown via Evelyn McLachlan

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Proverb via Jim Taylor

WISH I SAID THAT… 39

Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you.
Anonymous via Kausie White

Self-made gods always see what they are doing as being for the greater good
J.B. Robb via Jo Leget of Medina, Ohio

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.
James Thurber

WISH I SAID THAT… 40

It's ironic that people pray for the poor and the sick, and then complain when the government does anything to help them.
William Sloane Coffin via Susan Fiore, AOJN

That's the problem with eternity, there's no telling where it will end.
Source unknown via John Cameron

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
attributed to Albert Einstein