Thought for the day...

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Don’t spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They’ll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents. William Coronel

Sign outside a local shopping center: “Sunday Dog Show – Monday Flea Market.”

It is illegal to bring or take some birds across the border. But, what if those birds flew across?


Take time to work, it is the price of success.
Take time to think, it is the source of power.
Take time to play, it is the secret of perpetual youth.
Take time to read, it is the foundation of wisdom.
Take time to worship, it is the highway to reverence.
Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream, it is hitching your wagon to a star.
Take time to love and be loved, it is the privilege of the gods.
Take time to look around, it is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.

 

There is nothing permanent except change.

Everything in excess is opposed to Nature.

If the population of the Earth were to grow at the same rate it did between 1990 and 1995, in another two centuries the population would be 135 billion. I don’t believe this Earth could support that many people! Then I read that the maximum population that could actually be reached is 11 billion.

People who take issue with population control do not understand that if it is not done in a graceful way, nature will do it in a brutal fashion.

On an American dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1” encased in the “shield.”

Do you remember Yankee Doodle Dandy, who went to town on his pony, “put a feather in his cap and called it macaroni?” That last line never seemed to make sense. But in England in the late 1700’s, dandified gentlemen gathered at Macaroni Clubs and the word macaroni was used to describe things that were elegant to the extreme.


It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then say the opposite.

 

Politics is like coaching a football team. You have to be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft…and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. Wernher von Braun

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral.

I’d just like a chance to prove that being rich can’t make me happy.

People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin

If you have the time, you won’t have the money. If you have the money, you won’t have the time.

 

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

The person with the least expertise has the most options.

He who straddles the fence has few directions from which to choose.

When a problem goes away, some people keep right on working trying to solve it.

…for the most part happiness consists in being willing to be what you are. Erasmus

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live now.

 

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. Collette

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

You cannot mandate productivity; you must provide the tools to let people become their best. Steve Jobs

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

 

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Gandhi

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. Motto of the Baltimore Grotto

There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. Johann Sebastian Bach

Anywhere is within walking distance, if you have the time.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Statistics: Don’t use them as a post to lean on, but use them for illumination

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

 

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.

The most important thing in communication might be to hear what isn’t being said.

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. French proverb

It is not what they call you, it’s what you answer to. African proverb

If we don’t think of future generations, they will never forget us.

 

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with lights.

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

You never know what you can do until you try. You never know what you can do without until you try.

What’s all our knowledge worth? We don’t’ even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.

Brain: The apparatus with which we think we think.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

 

Most people are like eggs. Too full of themselves to hold anything else.

Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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

A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman, of the next generation.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

To be a leader of men you sometimes have to turn you back to them.