Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~ Chinese proverb

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore, they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation.
~ Pearl S. Buck

[SmokeyBob]

We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants or the special subject of our petitions.
~ Albert Barnes

Thanksgiving, like contentment, is a learned attribute. The person who hasn't learned to be content will not be thankful, for he lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.
~ Robert Flatt

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.
~ W.T. Purkiser

[SmokeyBob]

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
~ Charlotte Bronte

To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world. Except exercise, get up early or be respectable.
~ Oscar Wilde

Luck is the residue of design.
~ Branch Rickey

[SmokeyBob]

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
~Joyce Cary

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~Unknown

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
~Euripides

[SmokeyBob]

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart: this you will build your life by and this you will become.
~James Lane Allen

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
~Romain Gary

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
~Tyron Edwards

[SmokeyBob]

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
~William Makepeace Thackeray

He is such a procrastinator—he still uses last year's calendar.

"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

[SmokeyBob]

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
~Vauvenargues

It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper.~Unknown

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
~Alexander Pope

[SmokeyBob]

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
~ American proverb

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
~ Lee Iococca

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~ Norman MacFinan

[SmokeyBob]

"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards."
~William A. Ward

If you perm your hair twice in opposite directions does it come out straight?
~Unknown

"The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head."
~Helen Rowland

[SmokeyBob]

Man has never made any material more resilient as the human spirit.
~ Bernard Williams

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~ Unknown

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.
~ John Richelsen

[SmokeyBob]

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force. My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.
~ Og Mandino

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
~ Niels Bohr

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
~ Charles Wadsworth

[SmokeyBob]

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Edward Everett Hale

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.
~ Pablo Casals

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
~ Charles Dickens

[SmokeyBob]

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
~ Erich Fromm

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
~ Nelson Mandela

[SmokeyBob]

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
~Samuel Butler

Laughter is an instant vacation.
~Milton Berle

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
~Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
~ Althea Gibson

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
~ G.B. Shaw

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.
~ Calvin Coolidge