Thought for the day...

I was actually on the tractor yesterday! Felt great too. Also had a board meeting last night. They were surprised that I showed up.

 

If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it. Calvin Coolidge

I know only two tunes; one of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other one isn’t. Ulysses Simpson Grant

Work is one of the greatest things in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. Elbert Hubbard

I once knew a fellow so benevolent and merciful, that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower or rain.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. Samuel Johnson

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

 

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other. Voltaire

A fad goes in one era and out the other.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide

A peacock has too little in his head, too much in his tail. (I know some people like that too.)

It really takes pluck to shape your eyebrows.

Seven-year-old to his father, “Before you married Mom, who told you how to drive?”

 

Golf is a game where you sock the ball hard and walk four feet.

People don’t always believe everything they hear, but often repeat it just to be on the safe side.

An ant preaches a good sermon and she does it without saying anything.

The recruit complained to the sergeant that he had a splinter in his finger. “You should have more sense,” was the harsh reply, “than to scratch your head.”

In the new updated Monopoly game, the player who buys all four railroads goes bankrupt.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Contentment: the smother of invention

 

Poise is the ability to face the guillotine without losing your head.

If people would stop to think more, they would stop to thank more.

Few are prepared to attend their own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Research is often a blind date with knowledge.

Too many monuments are boasts in stone.

The art of giving is to give what cannot be bought.

 

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom, the figure is the same as for love.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

It is said that a rattlesnake, if cornered, will become so angry it will bite itself.

Under the stars we are reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

The present has one advantage over every other—it is ours to claim.

When water covers the head, a hundred fathoms are as one. Persian proverb

I never read a book before reviewing it, it prejudices one so. Charles Kettering

 

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Trust your hunches. They’re sometimes based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out. Satchel Paige

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus

Too often we…enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

 

In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin; a grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak. James Lowell

It isn’t so astonishing the number of things I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren’t so.

The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite.

The shortest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Some of the best portions of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.