Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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[SmokeyBob]

"Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded."
~Tim Allen

"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts—the less you know the hotter you get."
~Bertrand Russell

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
~Laurence J Peter

[SmokeyBob]

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~Thomas A. Edison

"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep."
~Joan Klempner

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
~Joseph Heller

[SmokeyBob]

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
~Unknown

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
~Douglas Adams

[SmokeyBob]

In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.
~Janos Arany

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities. Always see them, for they're always there.
~Norman Vincent Peale

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

[SmokeyBob]

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and only one nut to scatter it all over the road.
~ A bumper sticker

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, we need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so that we can see the world in a new way.
~ J.S. Brown

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong

[jstrubberg]

When the only tool your have is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

[SmokeyBob]

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
~ Unknown

"Wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future and your hopes will not be cut short."
~ Proverbs 24:14

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
~Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
~Max Eastman

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
~Unknown

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
~Blaise Pascal

[SmokeyBob]

"Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people."
~Will Cuppy

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
~Dodie Smith

"The most beautiful invention of man is bicarbonate of soda."
~Francis Picabia

[SmokeyBob]

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
~Sidney J. Harris

"You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube."
~H. R. Halderman

"Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets."
~Ambrose Bierce

[SmokeyBob]

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose."
~ Darrin Weinberg

A man who had his credit cards stolen recently says he isn't reporting the theft to the police because the thief is spending less on the cards than his wife was.
~Unknown

"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
~Ernest Hemingway

[SmokeyBob]

Find ecstasy in life. The mere sense of living is joy enough.
~Emily Dickinson

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
~Oscar Wilde

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~William Hazlitt

[SmokeyBob]

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
~Mary Kay Ash

"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
~Noam Chomsky