Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows." ~ Clyde Watson

“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods." ~ Lucy Maud Montogomery

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." ~ Rogers Hornsby

[SmokeyBob]

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession." ~ Bo Bennett

"Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot." ~ English Folk Verse

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."
~ Andrew Wyeth

Today's Cartoon

[SmokeyBob]

"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three." ~ Elayne Boosler

"God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends." ~ Ethel Mumford

"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 Wilensky

[SmokeyBob]

"Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with." ~ Oliver Hudson

"When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be." ~ Jimmy Fallon

"Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute." ~ Alfred Stieglitz

[SmokeyBob]

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” ~ W.C. Fields

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” ~ Julia Child

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” ~ Calvin Trillin

[SmokeyBob]

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner” ~ Ruth Reichl

“It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.” ~ Deb Caletti

[SmokeyBob]

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in." ~ Anonymous

[SmokeyBob]

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
~ Oprah Winfrey

"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." ~ Frank A. Clark

[SmokeyBob]

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." ~ Dalai Lama

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[SmokeyBob]

"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds." ~ Aristotle Onassis

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have." ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

[SmokeyBob]

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." ~ Carl Sagan

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another." ~ Milton Friedman

"You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face." ~ Emma Thompson

[SmokeyBob]

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~ Walt Disney

[SmokeyBob]

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not entice us to have them." ~ John Updike

[SmokeyBob]

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." ~ John Quincy Adams



"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson



"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends." ~ Benjamin Franklin

[SmokeyBob]

"Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools." ~ Gene Brown

"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise." ~ Chauncey Depew

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