Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace." ~ Anthony Burgess

"Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised and wise and our own, today."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature."
~Harold Coffin

[SmokeyBob]

"Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed."
~ James Thomson

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." ~William Shakespeare

"Sweet April showers, Do spring May flowers."
~ Thomas Tusser

[SmokeyBob]

"Hear no evil, speak no evil – and you’ll never be invited to a party." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money." ~ Jonathan Clements

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy." ~ Spike Milligan

[SmokeyBob]

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." ~ Maya Angelou


"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." ~ Confucius


If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~Lao Tzu

[SmokeyBob]

"Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die." ~ Max Asnas

"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." ~ Charles M. Schulz

[SmokeyBob]

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.” ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." ~ Dale Carnegie

"You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one." ~ Dashiell Hammett

[SmokeyBob]

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.” ~ Steven Moffat


“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” ~ Sydney Harris

[SmokeyBob]

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature." ~ Camille Paglia

[SmokeyBob]

“I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.”
~ Jarod Kintz

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
~ Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance."
~ William Wirt

"All things are difficult before they are easy."
~Thomas Fuller

[SmokeyBob]

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."
~Clifton Paul Fadiman

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
~ Cicero

"We work to become, not to acquire."
~Elbert Hubbard

[SmokeyBob]

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."
~ Brendan Francis

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." ~Joseph Wood Krutch

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."
~ Henry Boye

[SmokeyBob]

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
~E. B. White

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
~ John Ruskin

"I took up meditation. I like to have an espresso first just to make it more challenging."
~Betsy Salkind

[SmokeyBob]

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
~Don Marquis

"Do what we can, summer will have its flies." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
~Edward R. Murrow

[SmokeyBob]

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." ~ Sir Frederick G. Banting

"When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive."
~Alan Paton

"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work."
~ Mother Teresa