/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /* ponder.js Code was created by C. Eton. Statement author unknown. Only 1 item need to be edited: 1. The Statements array variable. */////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // List the statements to display. Add statements as necessary. var Statements = new Array( 'We live in a very strange society. The Bible says that debt is a curse and children are a blessing, but we apply for a curse and reject blessings.
Doug Philips', 'Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Hank Stram', 'He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man\’s, who will give you what is your own?
Luke 16:10-12', 'Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
Ezra Pound', 'Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
Henry Wheeler Shaw', 'One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can\’t pay back.
Jesse Jones', 'In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.
Norbert Wiener', 'A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
Austin O’Malley', 'Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus', 'Debt is normal. Be weird.
Dave Ramsey', 'Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett', 'Debt is dumb. Cash is king.
Dave Ramsey', 'You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan', 'A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
Gordon Liddy', 'Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover', 'Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson', 'Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton', 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan doth oft lose both itself and friend.
William Shakespeare', 'Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Moliere', 'I like my players to be married and in debt. That\’s the way you motivate them.
Ernie Banks', 'Ten million dollars after I\’d become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.', 'Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Prentice', 'No man\’s credit is as good as his money.
i>E.W. Howe', 'This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
Earl Wilson', 'Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin', 'Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
Benjamin Franklin', 'Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin', 'Running into debt isn\’t so bad. It\’s running into creditors that hurts.
unknown', 'A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
Italian Proverb', 'Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Dutch Proverb', 'Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
American Proverb', 'The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.
unknown', 'Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.
Spanish Proverb', 'Interest on debts grow without rain.
Yiddish Proverb', 'The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
James Lendall Basford', 'Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.
Robert Quinlin', 'Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash', 'The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn.. people earning a million dollars a year can have no money and.. People earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It\'s not what you earn, it\'s what you spend.
Paul Clitheroe', 'There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie', 'Live like no one else now so that later you can live like no one else.
Dave Ramsey', 'You can have anything you want; you just can\'t have EVERYthing you want.
unknown', 'If an offer seems to good to be true, and it\'s not being made by your grandmother, stay away!
unknown', 'The best things in life are free; for everything else there\'s coupons.
unknown', 'Waste not, want not.
American proverb', 'Stuff expands to the space allotted.
unknown', 'Penny wise and pound foolish.
French proverb', 'I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Lao Tzu', 'We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Gloria Steinem', 'It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt','A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don\'t need it.
Bob Hope', 'If you think nobody cares if you\'re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Earl Wilson', 'Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one\'s wife\'s sister\'s husband.
H.L. Mencken', 'The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
Oscar Wilde', 'My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn', 'I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason', 'Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein', 'The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
Evan Esar', 'A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin', 'Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx', 'A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Senator Everett Dirksen', 'Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson', 'There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
Edgar Watson Howe', 'Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
unknown', 'I never been in no situation where havin\' money made it any worse.
Clinton Jones', 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare', 'Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose', 'To make money, buy some good stock, hold it until it goes up, and then sell it. If it doesn\'t go up, don\'t buy it.
Will Rogers', 'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Proverbs 28:20', 'And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19', 'Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
Lord Rosebery', 'A bargain ain\'t a bargain unless it\'s something you need.
Sidney Carroll', 'He who does not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius', 'Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin', 'The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Frank Hubbard', 'Inflation hasn\'t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.
Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr', 'When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
John Wesley', 'The real measure of your wealth is how much you\'d be worth if you lost all your money.
unknown', 'The only reason a great many American families don\'t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.
Mad Magazine', 'It\'s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it\'s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven\'t lost the things that money can\'t buy.
George Horace Lorimer', '"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
Mignon McLaughlin', 'Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I\'m not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben', 'Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen', 'Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty', 'Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.
A.A. Latimer', 'Money can\'t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.
unknown', 'When a fellow says it hain\'t the money but the principle o\' the thing, it\s th\' money.
Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard', 'If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding', 'I am having an out of money experience.
unknown', 'Money isn\'t the most important thing in life, but it\'s reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
Zig Ziglar', 'You can\'t solve money problems with money.
unknown', 'Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won\'t buy the wag of his tail.
Henry Wheeler Shaw', 'People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
Doug Larson', 'In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he\'s a wonder.
unknown', 'A nickel ain\'t worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra', 'Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
From a Washington Post word contest', 'That money talks I\'ll not deny,I heard it once: It said, "Goodbye."
Richard Armour', 'Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that abuseth his lips, & is a fool.
Pro 19:1', 'He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow', 'Who goeth a borrowing goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Tusser', 'In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
American Saying', 'Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
Will Rogers', 'Debt is the worst poverty.
Thomas Fuller', 'Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Benjamin Franklin', 'There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I\'m almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
Paul Clitheroe', 'Today, there are three kinds of people: the have\'s, the have-not\'s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have\'s.
Earl Wilson', 'When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Balance', 'Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
unknown', 'The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
John Berger', 'We didn\'t starve, but we didn\'t eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
Bernard Malamud', 'There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi', 'Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare', 'Enough is as much as a feast.
unknown', 'For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
I Timothy 6:10', 'A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields', 'When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Confucius', 'Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran', 'It is an ironic fact that while half the world\'s population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence.
Malcolm Carruthers', 'You can never get enough of what you don\'t need to make you happy.
Eric Hoffer', 'There must be more to life than having everything!
Maurice Sendak', 'Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
unknown', 'The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
Paul Heyne', 'Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand', 'Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'We don\'t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven\'t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Ronald Reagan', 'The trouble with us in America isn\'t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger', 'We don\'t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.
Donald Horban', 'It\'s not about having what you want, it\'s about wanting what you have.
unknown', 'When goods increase, they increase who eat them; So what profit have the owners except to see them with their eyes? Ecclesiastes 5:11', 'It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Rutherford B. Hayes' ); /* GetStatement( ) is the primary function. It assumes the following: 1. The HTML file contains a form named "statementform". 2. Within the statement form, there is a textarea or textbox named "statement". */ function GetStatement(outputtype) //modified to either write out result or set innerHTML prop { if(++Number > Statements.length - 1) Number = 0; if (outputtype==0) document.write(Statements[Number]) else if (document.getElementById) document.getElementById("ponder").innerHTML=Statements[Number]; } // The GetRandomNumber( ) function extracts a random number within a given range. function GetRandomNumber(lbound, ubound) { return (Math.floor(Math.random() * (ubound - lbound)) + lbound); } // The Number variable keeps track of which statement to display. It will start at a random point. var Number = GetRandomNumber(0, Statements.length - 1);