Short Pithy Sayings
for bulletins, church signs, etc.
We have a sign in front of our church with space for a (very short) message.
Here are some sayings I have used. (And showing how I broke them into 2 lines.)
Love to a child / is spelled T I M E
Make enemies / your friends
Life is too short / to miss today
No God, no peace / know God, know peace
Greatest mistake - / giving up
Greatest wealth - / health
Greatest joy - / to love & be loved
Give someone / reason to smile
The rest of your / life begins today
Who do you / take for granted?
Some listen - / some wait to talk
Never too late / to begin
Sin begins with / carelessness
Smiles / come back
Life - / handle with prayer
Children need / models, not critics
Today - best day / for
Start a smile / reaction
Love gives / roots & wings
Most worries / are re-runs
Swallow pride / it's non-fattening
Gratitude / is a choice
God invests / in people
Give like God / --yourself
Good can be / enemy of the best
Shared joy / is double joy
Encouragement - / oxygen to the soul
Be rich - acquire / few needs
He who knows all / has lot to learn
No listener / is unpopular
Be careful of / your thoughts
We fall off / pedestals
Faults are easy / things to find
God doesn't / make junk
Take time / to love
You always / have choices
You're qualified / to be yourself
Failure - chance to / do it again, wiser
Keep on your toes / & reach high
God gave us / 2 ears & 1 mouth
Our family can be / your family
A grateful mind is / a great mind
To be prepared / be pre-prayed
Don't let what / you get, get you
Friendliness - / way to happiness
Memory gives us / roses in January
Love is / love's reward
The naked truth / is not indecent
Life is too short / not to love today
If your knees knock / kneel on them
Rain makes / roses & mud
Death died / on Easter
Make time count / don't count time
Give a hand / not a handout
Try to count / your blessings
Pluck / brings luck
Those who drive / like crazy, are
Failure - / giving up trying
God turns lemons / into lemonade
To belittle is / to be little
Be easy to please / & hard to satisfy
Happiness is / home-made
If you think you / can't--you're right
Mud thrown / is ground lost
Take time / to dream
God is only / a prayer away
Giving thanks / opens eyes
To be happy / make others happy
There's no present / like time
Aim at nothing / --& you'll hit it
Patience carries / a lot of wait
My collection includes maybe 3 times more. E-mail me some short pithy sayings you've collected (a few or a lot!) and I'll send you more from my collection.