Thought for the day...

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown-apart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

10. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

 

12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

15. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

 

16. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran

17. A backward poet writes inverse.

18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.

19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion

 

Below are some quotes from Henry David Thoreau
(I have lots so this one will continue for many days.)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

 

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

 

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

 

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

 

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

 

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.


In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.