Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?" ~ Myrtie Barker

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
--Brian Tracy

"A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last." ~ Helen Rowland

[SmokeyBob]

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
~ Helen Keller

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
~ W. Somerset Maugham

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." ~Barbara G. Harrison

[SmokeyBob]

"Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat."
~E. Merrill Root

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
~ Bertrand Russell

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." ~Sophia Loren

[SmokeyBob]

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." ~ Joseph Campbell

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree." ~ Thomas Campbell

[SmokeyBob]

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." ~ Alfred Adler

"I don't care how much you and your cat love each other, if you were one inch smaller than the sweet little kitty, he'd eat you in a heartbeat."
~Tom Gard

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety" ~George Mueller

[SmokeyBob]

"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper." ~ G. K. Chesterton

"The hills of one's youth are all mountains."
~ Mari Sandoz

"If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer."
~Yogi Berra

[SmokeyBob]

"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."

~ Al Bernstein

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January."

~ Hal Borland


“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
~ L.M. Montgomery

[SmokeyBob]

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." ~Ed Cunningham

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." ~John Leonard

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." ~ Walter Winchell

[SmokeyBob]

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it ' ~.Emily Dickinson

"Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do." ~ Amelia Earhart

[SmokeyBob]

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life". ~Steve Jobs

"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Action is the foundational key to all success". ~ Pablo Picasso

[SmokeyBob]

"There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours." ~ Sophia Loren

"I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee." ~ Clark Gable

"If it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever." ~David Letterman

[SmokeyBob]

"The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it." ~ Aeschylus

"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'" ~ Dave Barry

"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life."
-~Michael Leboeuf

[SmokeyBob]

"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone." ~ Emily Bronte

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
~ Doug Larson

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them."
~ Malcolm Forbes

[SmokeyBob]

"More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind." ~ James Waddell Alexander

"A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, "I've been going for three months." I said, "How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate"? He said, "All of them."
~ Red Skelton

"It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously." ~Stephen Fry

[SmokeyBob]

"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably, they are both disappointed." Albert Einstein



"Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended." Zsa Zsa Gabor



"My advice to you is get married: If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates