Leopold Fechtner quotes

“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.”
-- Leopold Fechtner

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“My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!”
-- Leopold Fechtner

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“My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing”
-- Leopold Fechtner

Source : Leopold Fechtner “Encyclopedia of Ad-Libs, Crazy Jokes, Insults and Wisecracks”

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“Wall Street is a place where the day begins with good buys.”
-- Leopold Fechtner

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“I told my broker that as long as he doesn't tell me where my money should go, I won't tell him where he should go.”
-- Leopold Fechtner

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“Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing.”
-- Leopold Fechtner

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“There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.”

“There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.”

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.”

“He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.”

“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”

“I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.”