Thought for the day...

When you are winning, nothing hurts as bad.

Chase human nature away and it will come back at a gallop. French proverb.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. Chinese proverb


If you think you’re beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you like to win but think you can’t,
It is almost certain, you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost.
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed, you are.
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before,
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go,
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.!

 

Marriages are not as they are made, but how they work out. Italian proverb

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Use your wit as a shield, not as a dagger.

If you didn’t start the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.


No matter how grouchy you’re feeling.
You’ll find the smile more appealing.
It grows in a wreath, all around the front teeth,
Thus keeping your face from congealing.

 

He has the right to criticize, who has the heart to help. Abe Lincoln.

What the child sees, the child does. What the child does, the child is. Irish proverb

Anything that can be proved requires no faith to accept it.


A woman requires but three things,
And life will but rarely bore her.
A table and chair, to move here and there;
And a husband to move them for her.


Remember when friends and neighbors used to visit over the garden fence or on the front porch? Now, it seems, they usually visit in the aisles of the supermarkets.

 

People say you should try to understand art. Why not instead try to understand the call of the wild, the cry of nature, the song of a bird, etc.?

A habit cannot be flung out the window, it must be coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Mark Twain

Little dogs make the most noise. (But they stay on the porch when the big dogs show up.)

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put back in tune once more. John Burroughs and Dennis Cook

Youth is such a wonderful thing; it’s a shame to waste it on children.

 

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

By working hard and diligently eight hours a day, you may eventually be promoted to a supervisor. Then you can work hard and diligently twelve hours a day.

Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people only once a year.

When I was young, I was told anybody could become president. Now I believe it.

I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand.

 

Laziness is resting before you become tired.

Forgive your enemies, it annoys the hell out of them.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it starts to storm.

It’s better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Thoreau.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow. Ben Franklin