Thought for the day...

There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together. Josh Billings

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Diligence is the mother of good luck. Ben Franklin

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Be happy while you are living for you’re a long time dead. Scottish proverb

 

The main object of religion is not to get a man into Heaven, but to get Heaven into him.

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. Will Rogers

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so. Josh Billings

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Emerson

 

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. Longfellow

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach. French proverb

Roasted pigeon will not fly into one’s mouth. Dutch proverb

He slept beneath the moon,
He basked beneath the sun;
He lived a life of going-to-do;
And dies with nothing done. James Albery

 

The United States is a wonderful, but strange country. The Supreme court has handed down the Eleventh Commandment: “Thou shalt not, in any classroom, read the first Ten.”

Blessing: May you never meet a mouse in your cupboard with tears in his eyes.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

One of the problems with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

 

The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it is bad for him. Bill Vaughan

One ship drives east and the other drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
‘Tis the set of the sails not the gales
Which tells us the way to go. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Winds of Fate


Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

You don’t have to look in every trash can to know there is garbage inside. Bob Dole


Truth is that which can’t be proved false.


A cat backed into a corner becomes a tiger.

 

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unearned applause.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature. Charles Dickens

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Earth and sky, wind and trees, rivers and fields, the mountains and the seas. All are excellent school masters and teach some of us more than we could ever learn from books.

An optimist is someone who believes a housefly is looking for a way out.

Old age is when actions creak louder than words.

 

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg

It’s not what they take away from you that counts. It is what you do with what you have left.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill

How come the dove gets to be the peach symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn’t have that dangerous beak. Jack Handey

Always think twice when you’re holding a pair.

 

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Henry Huxley

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. African proverb

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. Cicero

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. Churchill

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. Dan Quayle

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. Don Marquis

 

History is a set of lies agreed upon. Napoleon

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things that’s wrong with history. Clarence Darrow

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and the past perfect.

There are several good precautions against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Mark Twain

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if the people are in ignorance. Thomas Jefferson

One secret to teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

 

I feel like the guy who, when he finally reached the top of the ladder, he found out it was leaning against the wrong wall.

Laugh at your mistakes…Everybody else does.

Life is like the mail. Sometimes you just don’t get it.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. Mark Twain

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. Mark Twain

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.