Thought for the day...

Income these days is something you cannot live without or within.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau

 

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.


I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. Abraham Lincoln


Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle


Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.


The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill


Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates


It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napolean Hill


Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb


Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. Mark Twain


Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Harriet Beecher Stowe


The best time to plant a tree was 40 years ago. The next best time is now. American Indian proverb

 

Jeff, I'm beginning to think you and I are the only ones looking at this thread.

 

We cannot protect the value of the dollar by passing the buck. Richard Nixon


When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.


Many a parent wishes to be half as wonderful as their child though they were when the child was small and only half as stupid as that child thinks they are when they become a teenager.


Manufacturers are making the automobile safer in collisions, but there seems to be no way to redesign the driver or the pedestrian.

 

As soon as there is life there is danger. Emerson


The movie makers won’t start cleaning up the pictures until the movies stop cleaning up.


What about those people who are afraid of Friday the thirteenth? Consider this: The United States is loaded with 13’s. It started with 13 colonies and a 13 letter slogan, “E Pluribus Unum.” Our flag has 13 stripes and also began with 13 stars. The seal has 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 arrows and 13 leaves. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. The first Veterans’ organization, the Society of Cincinnati, was formed on May 13, 1783. The prototype of the popular image of Uncle Sam was first seen in the New York Lantern on March 13, 1852. Francis Scott Key knocked off the Star-Spangled Banner, on September 13, 1814. Woodrow Wilson considered 13 to be his lucky number. He dropped his first name, Thomas, to give himself a 13-letter name.



Listening to a political speech is a lot like shooting; you have to allow for the wind.


Don’t let the good things of life rob you of the best things.

 

We don’t mind youth having its fling. But we do object to some of the things they are throwing.


Crowding a life does not always enrich it.


Sometimes it seems that your paycheck has turned into a receipt for your payroll deductions.

 

Ask a woman how she stubbed her toe and she might say she walked into a chair. Ask a man and he’ll probably say some s.o.b. left a chair in the middle of the room.


In any controversy, the instant you feel anger, you have already ceased striving for truth, and have begun striving for yourself.


The Lord may help the poor, but not the poor and lazy.


An accountant always dreaded income-tax time because of the attitude of most of the clients. The general opinion seemed to be that the accountant was always at fault for not finding more deductions. One day, an immigrant farmer and his wife came in to pick up their tax return. The accountant considered absenting himself from the office when he saw them coming in because they owed more tax than any of his other customers. He expected a full-blown confrontation. But when the man came in, he studied the return thoughtfully while the accountant explained each detail, including the tax due. Then, turning to his wife, the farmer said, “That’s cheap rent, Mama, to live in this country.”



Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. Thoreau