Thought for the day...

We do not go into the woods to rough it; we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home.

To see a crow flying alone is a sign of good weather for 12 hours.

You can judge for yourself by what you feel you are capable of doing, while others will judge you by what you have already done.

Epitaph: Monumental Lie

American films are written and produced by the half-educated for the half-witted. St. John Ervine

The devil’s boots don’t creak. Scottish proverb

Good teaching is ¼ preparation and ¾ theater. Gail Godwin

 

There is a certain respect and a general duty of humanity not only to beast that live and sense, but even to trees and plants. Montaigne

Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword. Chinese proverb

The best way to get praise is to die. Italian proverb

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

All newspaper editorial writers ever do is come down the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded. Earl Mann

Keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. Yogi Berra

 

If I wished to punish people, I would have them governed by philosophers. Frederick the Great

If there’s ever a price on your head, take it.

Writing is not hard—just write what occurs to you. The writing is easy—it’s the occurring that’s hard. Stephen Leacock


Go find a road that runs out to the sky
Away from the noise of the street…
Go find a hill where the big winds sweep by
And green grasses blow at your feet.

Go seek a place where the kingfishers swoop,
Some haunt where the quiet waters gleam
Go seek a bank where willow trees stoop
Over the brink of a stream.

In the green silences Life seems so good,
Here all your questionings cease…
For the hush at the heart of a bird-haunted wood
Gives you a sense of God’s peace. Patience Strong

 

A writer is working when he is staring out the window.

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald. Russian proverb

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur

The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. Dutch proverb

A teacher is a person charged with the responsibility of keeping a room full of live wires grounded.

Ability is wonderful, but God is more interested in your availability.

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

 

Return to old watering holes for more than water—friends and dreams are there to meet you. African proverb

We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. Old communist saying

If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right.

On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of millions who, at the dawn of Victory, sat down to wait—and waiting, died! George W. Cecil

Work, like food, is a necessity. Tolstoy

If work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

 

Every political speech has a happy ending; everyone is glad when it is over.

Make yourself a mule and someone will ride you.

When you have the choice between being right and being kind, always choose kind.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has 9 lives. Mark Twain

Thoreau, on declining his diploma from Harvard: “Let every sheep keep his own skin.”

The true value of horse sense is shown by the fact that the horse was afraid of the auto during that period when the pedestrians laughed at it.

And here is one for Barcroftb and Scotty Overkill

Tree surgeons are taught to wear safety belts so they won’t fall out of their patients.

 

Moths can’t grow big because they only eat holes.

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

Do you really think that when George Washington was asked for ID, he just whipped out a quarter?

If a cow laughed, would milk come out of it’s nose?

Should animal shampoo be tested on humans?

When you buy pills of the shelf there is usually a cotton ball in the top that is meant to be thrown away. When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?

Is there another word for synonym?

 

Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

Success is not measured by height attained but by obstacles overcome.

Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Father to teenage children: “Maybe you should start fending for yourselves now while you still know everything.”

Failure: the path of least persistence.

 

It doesn’t hurt to dream as long as you get up and hustle when the alarm goes off.

He who throws dirt loses ground.

Guidance means that I can count on God; commitment means that God can count on me.

Keep you face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. Helen Keller

An optimist is one who, instead of feeling sorry he can’t pay his bills, is glad he is not one of his creditors.

Tact is the ability to stay in the middle without getting caught there.

A tactful teacher sent this note home to all parents: If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens in school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.

 

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb; that’s where the fruit is.

Inflation is when the buck doesn’t stop anymore.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.

Horse sense is stable thinking coupled with the ability to say “nay.”

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.

Humans, like chickens, thrive best when they scratch for what they get.