Thought for the day...

Walk softly, but carry a big stick. If that isn’t sufficient, run like crazy or carry a big gun.

If Congress would have written the Ten Commandments, it would have taken at least 10,000 books to write them.

Bad weather reports are more likely to be correct than good ones.

They say the only things inevitable are death and taxes, but there is also shipping and handling charges too.

Seems nobody says, “It’s only a game,” when they are winning.

Talk is cheap. That’s because supply exceeds demand.

 

Are there any male ladybugs?

Where, exactly, is midair?

All warrantees and guarantees are voided upon payment of the invoice.

We always had two choices when I was young; take it or leave it.

Some people expend tremendous energy just trying to appear normal.

People trust their eyes more than their ears.

 

What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Silence is rest for the mind. It is to the spirit what sleep is to the body.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of your father. Seek what he sought.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. Charles Schwab

It is hard to pay for bread that is already eaten.

A slight tax increase will cost more than a substantial tax cut will save you.

 

Man invented language to satisfy his need to complain. Lily Tomlin

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Thoreau

People who are well always have good advice for those who are sick.

Millions long for immortality but don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Man may still be the best computer they can put on board a spacecraft.

Man is the only thing that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

 

Drinking doesn’t drown your troubles, it irrigates them.

There’s nothing so small that it can’t be blown out of proportion.

Stupid people have fewer options.

He who straddles the fence has few directions which to turn.

Just by choosing where you stand, you alter your destiny.

You don’t get to choose how or when you die, but you can choose how you live.

 

Use soft words and harsh arguments. English proverb

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify. Simplify. Thoreau

You never know what you can do without until you try (or are forced).

Only thing worse than learning from experience is not learning from experience.

A society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive is itself dead.

 

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

The most dangerous strategy is to try to jump a chasm in two leaps.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.

It’s not what they call you, it’s what you answer to that matters.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

 

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The devil may be the father of lies, but he didn’t patent the idea, and the business now suffers from lots of competition.

There are as many well-dressed foolish ideas as well-dressed fools.

Is the plural of spouse, spice?

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to anything.

I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.