Granville F. Billingsley at Casa Grande Gin Co. office.November 1975
Granville F. Billingsley at Wayland BaptistUniversity, Lubbock, Texas 1985.
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This is dad's collection of sayings that were on his desk when he worked at the Casa Grande Gin Company on Selma Highway near Toltec and Casa Grande, Arizona. I received them after his death Nov. 1986. I thought it would be a great idea to share them here and give everyone a chance to read them. These were hand typed on 3x5 index cards and not getting the notice they deserve. Enjoy!
Note: Click on the link below a few of the quotes to learn more about the author.
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A father is neither an anchor
to hold us back
nor a sail to take us there,
but always a guiding light
whose love
shows us the way.
George Webster Douglas
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Summer: "Guest, you are welcome here, be at your ease.... Get up when you're ready, go to bed when you please. Happy to share with you such as we've got.... The leaks in the roof, the soup in the pot. "You don't have to thank us or laugh at our jokes... Sit deep and come often --- you're one of the folks."
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LORD -- Help me to remember that nothing is going to happen to me today that you and I together can't handle.
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If you have:
Something to hope for
Something to love
Something to do
YOU have three things to be thankful for.
No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no harm.
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GOOD, BETTER, BEST !
NEVER LET IT REST ! !
'TIL THE GOOD IS BETTER ! ! !
AND THE BETTER IS BEST ! ! ! !
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There are few, if any, jobs which ability alone is sufficient. Needed also are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and cooperation.
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Proficiency in advising others is common. Rare is the man who himself practices the virtue he can preach.
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A MULE CAN'T PULL WHILE HE IS KICKING - - - NEITHER CAN HE KICK WHILE PULLING. PEOPLE ARE LIKE THAT TOO!
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LOST
YESTERDAY BETWEEN SUNRISE AND SUNSET
One golden hour; each minute was set with diamonds; each second was set with rubies. No reward is offered for it's return for it is lost forever!
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An EXECUTIVE is a man wearing a neaktie and an important look who knows how to complicate simplicity.
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IF YOU DON'T ADMIT TO YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE "LICKED" YOU PROBABLY NEVER WILL BE !
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BEWARE OF REPEATING A HALF - TRUTH
YOU MAY HAVE THE WRONG HALF !
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NOTHING IS WORSE THAN A QUITTER - - -
EXCEPT A MAN WHO IS AFRAID TO BEGIN !
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WE DO NOT HAVE TO DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS TO SUCCEED; JUST DO ORDINARY THINGS EXTRAORDINARILY WELL !
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THE FUTURE IS THAT TIME WHEN YOU'LL WISH YOU'D DONE WHAT YOU AREN'T DOING NOW.
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I've drunk to your health on roundups,
I've drunk to your health at home,
I've drunk to your health so damned many times,
I've almost ruined my own !
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BE KIND. REMEMBER EVERYONE YOU MEET IS FIGHTING A HARD BATTLE.
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As you think back over your life, was there a time when you had a new birth experience with JESUS CHRIST, and you know you would go to heaven if you were to die right now?
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The worst thing about being on time is that everybody thinks you have nothing else to do.
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FOR SOME PEOPLE, LISTENING TO THEIR CONSCIENCE IS LIKE TAKING ADVICE FROM A TOTAL STRANGER .
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next."
- - Herbert Hoover
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SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT PRAYER MAKES ONE WEAK .
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Never stop to look behind you; you're liable to see someone catching up !
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"Be not deceived; GOD is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
Galations 6:7
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Grow old along with me,
The best is yet to be,
the last of life,
For which the first was made.
- - Robert Browning
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"READING IS TO THE MIND WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY."
- - Sir Richard Steele
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If, when boy meets girl, he tells her how lovely she looks, how much she means to him, and how much he loves her, that is "SALES PROMOTION."
If, instead, he impresses on her how wonderful HE is, that is "ADVERTISING."
But, if the girl seeks him out because she has heard from others what a splendid person he is, that is "PUBLIC RELATIONS." - Exhaust
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Understood ? I know you believe you Understood what you think I said but I am not sure you realize that what you Heard is not what I meant !
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Life is easier than you think - - - all you have to do is accept the IMPOSSIBLE do without the INDISPENSABLE and bear the INTOLERABLE. (and be able to smile at anything)
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Middle age is the prime of life, but it just takes longer to get primed.
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Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is that you are humble about.
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"Things could not be as bad as they are if we were as good as we think we are."
- - Kenneth Eaton
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Reputation is what people think about us.
Character is what we are.
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When you get into deep water keep your mouth shut.
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Some people will never be accused of being quitters - - -
- - - They never begin.
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We can tell right from wrong.
What we need is a foolproof way to tell temptation from opportunity.
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to TRIUMPH: Put some UMPH in the TRY.
- -Exhaust
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The drums crashing, saxes moaning, Beatles beating and all such, it is increasingly difficult to remember that the pretty girl is like a melody.
- - Kiwanis Mag
Exhaust
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May you have food and shelter
A soft pillow for your head.
May you be many years in heaven
Before the devil knows you're dead !
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IT IS WISER TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU SAY
**** THAN TO SAY WHAT YOU CHOOSE.
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When your wants and needs meet the money you have you are either healthy, wealthy or wise.
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ILLUSTRATION OF THE MODERN "ISMS"
SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them both and lets you milk them for a small percentage of the milk.
COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government shoots you and takes both cows.
CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You go buy the bull.
- - CG & OM Press
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It's easy to be female, a little harder to be feminine but very, very hard to be a woman - - - -
God did not create woman from a man's head , that he should command her, nor from his feet that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.
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A lion ate a bull. He felt so full that he roared and roared. A hunter heard him, came over, and shot him.
The obvious lesson: If you are full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
- - CG & OM Press
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THE GOAL OF CRITICISM IS TO
LEAVE THE PERSON WITH THE FEELING
THAT THEY'VE BEEN HELPED
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be
and you help them become what they are capable of being."
- - Johann W. von Goethe
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Man was born to succeed - - - not fail.
- -Henry David Thoreau
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When a man is pushed, tormented and defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he is cured of the insanity of conceit.
- - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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BY TAKING REVENGE A MAN IS EVEN WITH HIS ENEMY, BUT BY PASSING IT OVER, HE IS SUPERIOR !
- - Noah Webster
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"WE can change any situation by changing OUR attitude toward it. Nobody ever finds life worth living. One always has to make life worth living."
- - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Pastor, Riverside Church
New York City
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Just because a person is different from you doesn't necessarily mean that he is inferior to you ! !
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THE HARDEST TUMBLE A MAN CAN TAKE IS TO FALL OVER HIS OWN BLUFF !
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True security lies not in the things one has but the things one can do without.
- - Annonymous
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FINISH EACH DAY AND BE DONE WITH IT. YOU HAVE DONE WHAT YOU COULD; SOME BLUNDERS AND ABSURDITIES NO DOUBT CREPT IN. FORGET THEM AS SOON AS YOU CAN.
TOMMOROW IS A NEW DAY.
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In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better that a clumsy friend.
- - Madame Swetchine (1782-1857)
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EVERY MAN MUST LIVE WITH THE MAN HE MAKES OF HIMSELF, AND THE BETTER JOB HE DOES IN MOLDING HIS CHARACTER AND IMPROVING HIS MIND, THE BETTER COMPANY HE WILL HAVE.
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There is nothing wrong with the persons who say, "I've changed my mind." It just goes to prove they are smarter today than they were yesterday !
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GREAT MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS;
AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS;
SMALL MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE.
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Never feel you must apologise for being quiet. There is no point in talking unless you can improve the silence.
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Don't dwell on what might have been.
Regret is the cancer of life.
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"The man who cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."
- -George Herbert (1593-1633)
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