
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
Author: John Locke
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Author: Publilius Syrus
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
Author: Washington Irving
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
Author: James M. Barrie
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Author: Victor Hugo

Mortal: What is a million years like to you?
God: Like one second.
Mortal: What is a million dollars
like to you?
God: Like one penny.
Mortal: Can I have a
penny?
God: Just a second.
This is the joke from a category: Religious jokes
A preacher was completing a temperance
sermon: with great expression he said, "If I had all the beer in the
world,
I'd take it and throw it into the river." With even greater
emphasis
he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take
it and
throw it into the river."
And then finally, he said,
"And if I had all the whiskey in the world,
I'd take it and throw
it into the river."
He sat down. The song leader then stood very
cautiously and announced
with a smile, "For our closing song, let
us sing Hymn # 365: "Shall We
Gather at the River."
This is the joke from a category: Religious jokes
It seems that there was a little old church
out in the countryside: painted white and with a high
steeple.
One Sunday, the pastor noticed that his church needed painting. He
checked out the Sunday ads and found a paint sale. The next day, he
went
into town and bought a gallon of white paint. He went back out
to the
church and began the job.
He got done with the first
side. It was looking great. But he noticed
he had already used a
half gallon. He didn't want to run back in town
and being the
creative person that he was, he found a gallon of thinner
in the shed out
back, and began to thin his paint.
It worked out great. He
finished the remaining three sides with that
last half gallon of
paint.
That night, it rained: it rained hard. The next morning when he
stepped
outside of the parsonage to admire his work, he saw that
the first side
was looking great, but that the paint on the oth
er three sides had
washed away.
The pastor looked up in sky
in anguish and cried out, "What shall I
do?"
A voice came
back from the heavens saying, "Repaint, and thin no
more!"
This is the joke from a category: Religious jokes
There's this cathedral that's still being
worked on, and the workers have rigged a "cage elevator" inside so
they can get material up and down to the upper floors. A
characteristic
of these "cage elevators" is that the doors (gate) must be
closed
manually for them to be "called" to another floor.
One
day one of the workers, Peter by name, takes the elevator to the
top floor, and it is subsequently needed on the first floor by the
sexton. Unfortunately, Peter forgot and left the door open. After the
sexton
rings for the elevator a couple times, to no avail, he yells up
for the
worker to send the lift back down. Visitors to the
cathedral were
treated to this sight: The sexton of the cathedral, head
tipped up, yelling
up to the heavens:
"Peter! CLOSE THE
GATES!!!"
This is the joke from a category: Religious jokes
The Chief Rabbi and the Pope are in a
meeting in Rome. The Rabbi notices a fancy shmancy phone on a side table
in
the Pope's private chambers. "What's that phone for?" he asks.
"It's my direct line to the Lord!" the Pope replies.
The
Rabbi is doubtful, but the Pope insists that he tries it out and,
indeed, he is connected to the Lord and chats away with Him for a while.
After he hangs up the Rabbi says. "Thank you very much. This is
great!
But listen, I want to pay for the charges I have used up." The
Pope
doesn't want to take the money, but finally gives in, checks
the counter
and says: Allright! The charge was 50,000 Lira.", which
the Rabbi
gladly pays.
A couple of weeks later, the Pope is
in Jerusalem on an official visit.
In the Rabbi's chambers he sees
the identical phone he has with a
direct line to the Lord. The Pope
asks if he could use it, because there
were some urgent matt
ers he needed to consult with Him. The Rabbi gladly
hands him the
phone and the Pope chats away. After he hangs up, he
says: "Now I
also want to pay for my charges on your phone." The Rabbi
looks on
the counter and says: "1 Shekel 50!" The Pope looks surprised:
"Why
so cheap!" The Rabbi smiles: "Local call."
This is the joke from a category: Religious jokes