Thought for the day...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a lot of money on hand.

A penny saved is ridiculous nowadays.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein

It’s not hard to meet expenses, they are everywhere.

Mediocrity thrives on standardization.

Some grow with responsibility, others just swell.

 

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 Seems nobody in America does that anymore. My favorites for stupid names are “sanitation engineers,” and “lock-up facilities.” Or: in 1982, the EPA called acid rain, “poorly buffered precipitation.” Or: The Defense Department, when purchasing a hammer, described it as a, “manually powered fastener-driving impact device.” GM, closing an entire plant and laying off thousands of workers said, “We are making a volume-related production schedule adjustment.” Department of Transportation calls road signs, “ground-mounted confirmatory route markers.”

Programming computers is a race between programmers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

 

It’s scary when you realize the earth is being run by “C” students.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The actions of men gives you a good clue to their thoughts.

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

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Drawing on my excellent command of the English language, I said nothing.

 

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Better to go to bed hungry than rise in debt.

Flattery is like perfume. To be smelt, not swallowed.

 

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

To get to Heaven, turn right and keep straight.

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

Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.

Diligence is the mother of good luck. Ben Franklin.

The main object of religion is not to get men into Heaven, it is to get Heaven into men.

 

Some people are like wheelbarrows. Only useful when pushed and very easily upset.

Once some people make up their minds, they are full of indecision.

Do the thing that’s right because it’s the right thing to do.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have enough time (and are able to walk).

Life is too important to be taken too seriously.

 

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

Never go to bed mad. It’s better to stay up and fight.

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.. to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a birds nest or a wildflower in spring. These are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs

The day, water, sun, moon, night; I do not have to purchase these things with money. You can’t be suspicious of a tree or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or even challenge the ideology of a flower.

 

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

There nature is to argue and procrastinate, yet we persist in electing lawyers to Congress.

Ben Franklin

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein


The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.


Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.


Don’t think that knowledge and wisdom are the same. One helps you make a living and the other helps you make a life.

 

He that knows little often repeats it.

There never was an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own time.

If you have half a mind to tell someone off, it’s better to wait until the other half gets control.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principle difference between a man and a dog. Mark Twain

Outside a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx

When everything else fails, the duct tape probably will too.

 

When young people grow up, the first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob turns counter-clockwise too.

They say we’re here on earth to do good to others. I have no idea what others are put here for.

Take what you need from the land, but need what you take. Aboriginal law

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Perhaps what wisdom is, is that you suddenly understand something you’ve understood all along, only in a new way.
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.