Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them." ~ Malcolm Forbes

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." ~ H. L. Mencken

[SmokeyBob]

"The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic." Henry Ward Beecher

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life." ~ Michael Leboeuf

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." ~ Joseph Addison

[SmokeyBob]

"More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind." ~ James Waddell Alexander

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Norman MacFinan

"People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage." ~ Mignon McLaughlin

[SmokeyBob]

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." ~ George Orwell

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” ~ John Philpot Curran

[SmokeyBob]

"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ~Marilyn vos Savant

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." ~ Elmer Davis

"Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. ~ Carl Schurz

[SmokeyBob]

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." ~ John F. Kennedy

"There, I guess King George will be able to read that." ~ John Hancock

"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!" ~ Daniel Webster

[SmokeyBob]

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." ~ Harry S. Truman

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table." ~ Ronald Reagan

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

[SmokeyBob]

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.” ~ John Basil Barnhill

[SmokeyBob]

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." ~ Winston Churchill

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


"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."~ Don Marquis

[SmokeyBob]

"Only the mediocre are always at their best." ~ Jean Giraudoux

"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know." ~ Laurence J. Peter

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." ~ Thomas Sowell

[SmokeyBob]

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." — Erica Mann Jong

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes." — Albert Einstein

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." ~ Fred Allen

[SmokeyBob]

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” ~ Robert Frost

“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.” ~ Norm Crosby

[SmokeyBob]

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.” ~ Bill Vaughan

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." ~ Oscar Levant

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?" ~ Jean Kerr

[SmokeyBob]

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." ~ Lawrence Clark Powell

"There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over." ~ Carl W. Buechner

"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." ~ John Adams

[SmokeyBob]

"When one door closes, another door opens. But we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us." ~ Alexander Graham Bell

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to." ~ Abigail Van Buren

"The truth dazzles gradually or else the world would be blind." ~ Emily Dickinson