Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice." ~ Bill Cosby


"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." ~ Isaac Asimov


"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now and we don't know wher the heck she is."

~ Ellen DeGeneres

[SmokeyBob]

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." ~ Hippolyte Taine


"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." ~ Winston Churchill


"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals." ~ George Mikes

[SmokeyBob]

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." ~ Oscar Wilde


“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.” ~Vince Lombardi, Jr.


“Leaders live by choice, not by accident.” ~ Mark Gorman

[SmokeyBob]

"He who lives with his head in the clouds would do well to remember that clouds are made of the same stuff as tears."

~ Bryan Darby


"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." ~ G.K. Chesterton


"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SmokeyBob]

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" ~ Steven Wright.


"At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there, I carry on as usual."

~ Patrick Moore


"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." ~ Groucho Marx

[SmokeyBob]

"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." ~ Jack Lemmon


"We learn so many things from golf - how to suffer, for instance." ~ Bruce Lansky


"To find a man's true character, play golf with him." ~ P.G. Wodehouse

[SmokeyBob]

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." ~ William Shakespeare


"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts." ~ Harold MacMillan


"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." ~ Billy Wilder

[SmokeyBob]

"Old age is no place for sissies." ~ Bette Davis


"Life begins at forty - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight and the tendency to tell a story to the same person three or four times." ~ Helen Rowland


"No man is ever old enough to know better." ~ Holbrook Jackson

[SmokeyBob]

I used to think I was poor.
Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy.
They told me it was self-defeating to look at myself as needy.
I was deprived.
Then they told me that underprivileged was overused.
I was disadvantaged.
I still don't have a dime.
But I have a great vocabulary. -Jules Feiffer

[SmokeyBob]

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." ~ Napoleon Hill


"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." ~ Yogi Berra


"I failed my way to success." ~ Thomas Edison

[SmokeyBob]

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" ~ Robert Browning


"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." ~ William James


"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far highter that if you aimed at an object on a level with yourself."

~ J. Howes

[SmokeyBob]

"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them." ~ Juvenal


"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." ~ Arthur C. Clarke


"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." ~ Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

[SmokeyBob]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~ Albert Einstein



"You can do anything, but not everything." ~ David Allen



"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers

[SmokeyBob]

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi


"Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.” ~ Ruth Gordon


“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ~ Bil Keane

[SmokeyBob]

"How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours." ~ Wayne Dyer


"He who angers you, conquers you." ~ Elizabeth Kenny


"When Angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.” ~ Mark Twain