Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing and conveys much." ~ Erastus Wiman

"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." ~ Charles Du Bos

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

[SmokeyBob]

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." ~ Erma Bombeck

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." ~ Henry Van Dyke

"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." ~ Irv Kupcinet

[SmokeyBob]

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

“I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
~ Craig Ferguson

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

Today's Cartoon

[SmokeyBob]

“Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” –Johnny Carson

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~ Melody Beattie

“Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.” ~Ambrose Bierce

[SmokeyBob]

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” ~ William Faulkner

“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” ~ Robert Caspar Lintner

"Thanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn’t learned to be content…lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.” ~ Robert Flatt

[SmokeyBob]

"When you drink the water, remember the well.” ~ Chinese proverb

"When I started counting my blessings; my whole life turned around.” ~ Willie Nelson

"As we express our gratitude, may we never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy

[SmokeyBob]

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range! ~ Tom Wilson

[SmokeyBob]

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." Stanislaw J. Lec

"You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." Sally Berger

"Every time I learn something new it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Like that time I took that home wine making course and forgot how to drive."~ Homer Simpson

[SmokeyBob]

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." ~ -Henry David Thoreau

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet, you always feel as if it costs you nothing." ~ Simone de Beauvoir


"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[SmokeyBob]

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not."
~ Mark Twain


"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger." ~ Franklin P. Jones

"Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too." ~ Lawrence Bixby

[SmokeyBob]

"In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king." ~ Erasmus


"A cat that catches mice does not meow." ~ Chinese Proverb


"When I play with my cat, who knows but that she regards me more as a plaything that I do her?" ~ Michel de Montaigne

[SmokeyBob]

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." ~ Sydney J. Harris

"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

[SmokeyBob]

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ Calvin Coolidge

[SmokeyBob]

“How did it get so late so soon?” ~ Dr. Seuss

"Ooh, with a little luck — December will be magic again." ~ Kate Bush

“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...” ~ John Geddes

[SmokeyBob]

"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes." ~ Mary Martin

"All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it." ~ Joseph Conrad

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." ~ James M. Barrie