Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has the best lawyer." ~ Robert Frost



"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." ~ Maya Angelou

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

[SmokeyBob]

"Doubt is the father of invention." ~ Galileo Galilei

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world." ~ Thomas Carlyle

"I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'" ~ Bruce Baum

[SmokeyBob]

"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what can you believe?" ~ Bullwinkle J. Moose

"Power is the ability to do good things for others." ~ Brooke Astor

"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." ~ Lord Thomas Dewar

[SmokeyBob]

"No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." ~ Elizabeth E. Bowen

"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it." ~ Don Marquis

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." ~ Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." ~Dorothy Parker

"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." ~ Daniel Boone

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these. ~George Washington

[SmokeyBob]

"My school days were the happiest days of my life, which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years." ~ Paul Merton

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." ~ William B. Sprague

"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one." ~ J.P. Morgan

[SmokeyBob]

"When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up."
~ J. Peterman

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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]

"The world is divided into people who do things--and people who get the credit." ~ Dwight Morrow


Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." ~ Laurence J. Peter


"Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." ~ Albert Camus

[SmokeyBob]

"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism." ~ Dean William R. Inge


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


There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness."
~ Gelett Burgess

[SmokeyBob]

"Bathe 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

"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

"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

[SmokeyBob]

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them." ~ Sylvia Plath


"There is still no cure for the common birthday." ~ John Glenn


"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." ~ William H. Sheldon

[SmokeyBob]

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." ~ Robert Wilenksy

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." ~ John Burroughs

"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours." ~ Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~ James Thurber

[SmokeyBob]

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

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." ~ Bernard Bailey

"If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing." ~ Phillips Brooks

[SmokeyBob]

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

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses." ~ Allophones Karr

"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world." ~ Colin Powell