Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[Prem]

"Your Majesty will do the human race an eternal service by extirpating this infamous superstition, I do not say among the rabble, who are not worthy of being enlightened and who are apt for every yoke; I say among honest people, among men who think, among those who wish to think."

--François-Marie Arouet

[SmokeyBob]

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
~Seneca

Be still when you have nothing to say. When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say and say it hot.
~D.H. Lawrence

In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
~John Adams

[SmokeyBob]

"You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets."
~Nora Ephron


"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
~Anatole France


"The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into."
~Bruce Schimmel

[SmokeyBob]

Laughter is an instant vacation.
~Milton Berle

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
~William McGill

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

[SmokeyBob]

"We are wiser than we know."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
~George Bernard Shaw

"We must be our own before we can be another's."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SmokeyBob]

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~ Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

[SmokeyBob]

"I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway."
~Jack Handey

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~Erma Louise Bombeck

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
~Frank Lloyd Wrigh

[SmokeyBob]

In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
~Thomas Jefferson

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.
~Unknown

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing; that's why we recommend it daily.
~Zig Ziglar

[SmokeyBob]

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
~Benjamin Franklin

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
~Doris Day

You cannot add to the peace and goodwill of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.
~Thomas Dreier

[SmokeyBob]

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

Seek respect mainly for thyself, for it comes first from within.
~Steven H. Coogler

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.
~Confucius

[SmokeyBob]

The family fireside is the best of schools.
~Arnold Glasgow

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
~George Washington

Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be; the last of life for which the first was made.
~Robert Browning

[SmokeyBob]

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
~Stanley Horowitz

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
~Pierre Corneille

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
~Malcolm Forbes

[Stinger]

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[SmokeyBob]

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
~Robert F. Kennedy

So, then, to every man his chance. To every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity. To every man, his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him. This seeker is the promise of America.
~Thomas Wolfe

Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch. Handing it on to future generations.
~Shaw

[SmokeyBob]

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
~Abraham Lincoln

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~Martha Washington

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
~Samuel Ullman