Thought for the day...

TRUE-ISMS

1. Once over the hill, you pick up speed.
2. I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
3. If it weren’t for STRESS I’d have no energy at all.
4. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don’t have film.
5. Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
6. If the shoe fits......buy it in every color.
7. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
8. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
9. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
10. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
11. Some days are a total waste of makeup.
12. Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.
13. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
14. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
15. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
16. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
17. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
18. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
19. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
20. Keep smiling, it makes everyone wonder what you've been up to.
21. You can’t tell a male pigeon from a female pigeon by just looking at them, but the pigeons can.

 

A couple in California had one of the world’s largest roosters. They named him Weirdo and he weighed around 22 lb. He was so mean that he crippled a dog which came too close and he also killed two cats. Is this called, “Poultry in Motion?”

The rooster may crow, but it’s the hen that delivers the goods. Ma Kettle

To move it’s feathers, a Canadian goose is said to use 12,000 muscles.

Oh what a strange bird is the pelican; his beak can hold more than his belly can. (When he is fishing, his beak can hold more than a gallon of water, some say up to two gallons.)

A bee’s front end is sweet and kind, but never trust a bee’s behind.
A bee can sting if it can sit, so always stay in front of it.

 

There is only a slight difference between keeping your chin up and sticking your neck out, but it is worth knowing.

The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Swallowing your pride occasionally will never give you indigestion.

It’s smart to pick your friends, but not to pieces.

You can’t fool all the people all the time, but politicians keep on trying.

When you are young, consider that one day you will be old. When you are old, remember that you were once young.

Destroy the seed of evil or it will grow up to your ruin.

 

I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. Confucius

Manana is often the busiest day of the week. Spanish proverb

When the mouth stumbles, it’s worse than the foot. West African proverb

Worry: Tomorrow’s cloud over today’s sunshine

There are two kinds of statistics; the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Success is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. Glasgow

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Opportunity doesn’t knock. Criticism knocks. Opportunity serenades. Hegel

Money talks, but credit echoes.

Living: the process that begins at mirth. Hegel

I’ve managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says that men cannot have too many shotguns or fishing poles. Norman Schwarzkopf

Disposable personal income is the income a person retains after deductions for income taxes, Social Security taxes, property taxes and the tax on your taxes. You have so little left it won’t buy anything so the government figures you might just as well dispose of it.

 

Joan Crawford once said about another actress, “That feather in her hat; it’s sticking out of her brain.”

Less than 300 years ago scientists believed migrating birds returned to their nesting places in the spring after spending the winter on the moon.

A bird can focus its eye more quickly than any other living creature.

Hummingbirds have been known to build their nests suspended by a spider’s web.

A grain is the smallest unit in the system of weights that has been used in the U.S. It originally was defined as the weight of a grain of wheat.

It is easy to propose impossible remedies.

Plant the seed of awareness and up pops a crop of concern that soon matures into responsibility.

 

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Women like silent men. They think they are listening.

During a school tour of the FBI headquarters, the group was shown a poster picturing the 10 most wanted felons. One student asked, “When you had them here for their pictures, why didn’t you keep them?”

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. Phillips Brooks

One life: a little gleam of time between two Eternities.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Money changes people just as often as it changes hands.

All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks to drive and draw us up into God’s light. John Muir

 

Dr. Bernie Siegel: Frequently when I’m in a hospital room with a dying patient, we are laughing. Out in the hallway, the other staff members often think we are denying reality. We must realize that people aren’t living or dying; they are either alive or dead. As long as they are alive, we must treat them that way. For this reason, I find the work “terminal” very upsetting. It means we’ve begun to treat that person as though he or she were already dead, incapable of laughter and joy. From Love, Medicine and Miracles

Friends are relatives we pick for ourselves.

To provide some degree of child training at home requires that both parents and children be there at the same time.

When people complain of life it is almost always because they have asked impossible things from it.

It always looks as if the best way to solve a problem is to spend somebody else’s money.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

 

The great high road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing.

It is not often than an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

The greatest asset of a man, a business, or a nation is faith. Thomas Watson

Life is like a bank in that neither one pays dividends unless we make deposits.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

 

There is always a crisis at crossroads when the sense of direction is uncertain.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Philippians 4:11

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Spring: when Nature gives plant life the green light.

Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust. Daniel Webster

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape. George Elliot

It is the soul and not the strongbox which should be filled. Seneca