Thought for the day...

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

Knowledge and love can be given away without losing any.

You’ll never know when you’ll need to know what you know.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must. Goethe

Mark Twain warned against reading health books. He said, “You might die of a misprint.” Be careful making habits, they may rule you.

Be careful making habits, they may rule you.

 

Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why does Hawaii have interstate highways?

If you were in a vehicle going the speed of light, what would happen if you turned on your headlights?

They put little indestructible boxes in airplanes. Why can’t they make the plane out of the same substance?

Let us not look back in anger nor ahead in fear, but let us look around in awareness.

 

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

Get the facts first. You can distort them later. Mark Twain

Seems like it now takes more money to amuse kids than it took to educate their parents.

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. Henry Kaiser

Never overestimate the decency of people

We were born naked, wet and hungry; then things got worse.

 

If you look like the photograph in your driver’s license, you shouldn’t drive.

How come there aren’t any father-in-law jokes?

Warning: Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear.

The last time I went to the doctor for a physical, I asked him, “How do I stand?” Then he replied, “That’s what puzzles me!”

Have you ever gotten one of those offers for a free gift? Aren’t all gifts free?

Confidence: That feeling you have before you really understand the problem.

 

They talk about a fountain of youth, how about a fountain of smart?

Flashlight: A cylindrical tube used to hold dead batteries.

Why is it that feet smell and noses run?

Sometimes a conclusion is just the place where people get tired of thinking.

Be like a duck. Appear calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath.

Never make forecasts, especially about the future.

 

Never take advice from someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Never contend with someone who has nothing to lose.

Don’t bite at the bait of pleasure until you know there is no hook. Thomas Jefferson

Treat people nice and they will treat you nice, at least half the time.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Theodore Roosevelt.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing.

 

When a finger points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger.

Lottery: A tax on fools that are no good at math.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer than expected. A carefully planned project only takes twice as long.

A company is known by the people it keeps.

 

As I was reading an article yesterday about some lady whose greatest wish was to have her fingernails painted, I could not help but think of these verses. NKJV

1 Peter 3:3 Do not let your adornment be merely outward - arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel
1 Peter 3:4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

No, it is not a sin to get your hair done or your nails done or wear jewelry, but this does tell me that those things are to be secondary and not a priority.