Thought for the day...

Any small object, when dropped, will hide under a larger object.

Automobile: A mechanical device that runs up hills and down people.

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Mediocrity thrives on standardization.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

 

Some grow with responsibility, others just swell.

Thank God they can’t cut down the clouds. Thoreau

Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Chinese proverb

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jerrery

A nation never falls but by suicide. Emerson

 

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language. Jean Rostand

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.

The world is run by C students.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. Mark Twain

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it.

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields.

 

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai Stevenson

The actions of people are their best interpreters of their thoughts.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. Pascal

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to and how little most men will do when they don’t have to.

You can lead a boy to college but you can’t make him think. Hubbard

 

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

Congress is strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees.

He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs. Japanese proverb

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tires is not the goal but the exercise.

 

Conscience: the only incorruptible thing about us.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there. Miles Davis

Remember than whoever is trying to kick your azz will never get ahead of you.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

 

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Cassius

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his image.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do it. Josh Billings

When summer’s past and fall’s begun, I note the changing leaves
So colorful, they quickly fill the gutters on my eaves.

 

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. Will Rogers

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. French proverb

Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

 

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. Voltaire

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Flattery is like cologne; to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Though I’m strictly nonmusical, I solved the riddle.
The toughest instrument to play is the second fiddle.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies

 

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles Kettering

The men who make history have not time to write it.

When you don’t have an education, you’ve got to use your brains.

Remember when a hard drive was an arduous car trip and not a computer part?

Babies are such a nice way to start people!