Thought for the day...

Every man reaps what he sows, except for the amateur gardener.

Everywhere children are schooled to become masters at answering questions and to remain novices at asking them.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

Could we say that part-time band leaders are semi-conductors?

To avoid suspicion, if your shoe becomes untied when walking through your neighbor’s melon patch, never even bend over to tie it.

Some people’s idea of keeping a secret is to refuse to tell who told it to them.

He is always right who suspects that he has made mistakes.

 

Among things so simple a child can operate are parents.

It is utterly useless to put your best foot forward while dragging the other one.

Every leader must look back once in a while to see if he still has followers.

Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Chaos is when the world changes faster than the people.

The most disappointed people in the world are those who get what’s coming to them.

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.

 

The best sermon is a good example.

A fool with money to burn soon meets his match.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There are two kinds of people. Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except for those that sang the best.

Watch your thoughts; they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates

 

If you go into a general store, they won’t let you buy anything specifically.

If you melt dry ice, can you take a bath without getting wet?

Of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up, wrinkled was not one of them.

Rehab is for quitters! Procrastinate now!

My dog can lick anyone.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

 

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Julius Caesar

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. Albert Einstein

Weather forecast for tonight: dark George Carlin

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.

 

Nature.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Anne Frank

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature never breaks her own laws. Leonardo da Vinci

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. William Wordsworth

 

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. Mark Twain

Learn about pine from the pines and about oak from the oaks.

The love of flowers is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand them. Max Schling

Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.