Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

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

"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

"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]

"Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there." ~ Andrew Mercer

"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

"Over the years, our bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike, of the minor and major stresses of your lives."
~ Marilyn Ferguson

[SmokeyBob]

"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 J. Simpson

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his brain is a craftsman. But a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." ~ Louis Nizer

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

[SmokeyBob]

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. " ~ Harriet Von Horne

"The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for." ~ Sophia Loren

"The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen." ~ Julia Child

[SmokeyBob]

"In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said." ~ Pablo Neruda

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." ~ Ingrid Bergman

"Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other." ~ Rene Yasenek

[SmokeyBob]

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ~ Edith Sitwell

"Nothing burns like the cold.” ~ George R.R. Martin

“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation." ~ Sinclair Lewis

[SmokeyBob]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." ~ Mark Twain

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." ~ Alice Walker

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." ~ Jim Rohn

[SmokeyBob]

"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." ~ Helen Keller

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me." ~ Erma Bombeck

[SmokeyBob]

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle." ~ Ken Hakuta

"I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force. My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day." ~ Og Mandino

"Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it." ~ Frank A. Clark

[VijayGupta]

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables us to recognize a mistake when we make it again. ~ Franklin P. Jones

[SmokeyBob]

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~ Ann Landers

"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard." ~ Jean Cocteau

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety." ~ George Mueller

[SmokeyBob]

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk. It's all a miracle." ~ Arthur Rubinstein

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
~ Helen Keller


"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." ~ Dan Rather

[SmokeyBob]

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry." ~ Rita Rudner

"A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you." ~ William Faulkner

"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." ~ Mother Teresa

[SmokeyBob]

"All progress is precarious and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire." ~ Aristotle

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret." ~ Laurence J. Peter

[SmokeyBob]

“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” ~ Earl Gray Stevens