Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.
~Jay Leno

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
~Sue Murphy

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
~August Strindberg: A Madmans Diary (1895)

[SmokeyBob]

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~ Helen Keller

When we know love matters more than anything and we know that nothing else really matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.
~ Unknown

You say, "If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied." You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

[SmokeyBob]

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
~Cicero

Oh, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk: it's all a miracle.
~Arthur Rubinstein

Employment gives health, sobriety and morals. Constant employment and well paid labor produce general prosperity, content and cheerfulness.
~Daniel Webster

[SmokeyBob]

Just Some Things to Think About

On the bags of miniature candy bars it says, 'Fun Size.' Does this mean that the regular size bars are no fun?

Why aren't they called bakies instead of cookies?

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

Why do mothers always say that their child cannot play until their room is clean? What will the room look like after the child plays?

How come we as children will fight tooth and nail not to have a nap only to find ourselves as adults wishing with all of our hearts that we could?

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to forgive each other as quickly and effortlessly as children forgive each other?

Didn't the guy who laughs last had to have it explained to him?

Isn't it better by far that you forget and smile rather than remember and be sad?

Why would there be a key to happiness? Isn’t the door always open?

Where do socks go when they get lost in the dryer?

Considering all the lint you get in your dryer, if you kept drying your clothes, would they eventually just disappear?

Do Clothing manufacturers really expect us to run a whole wash for each item marked 'wash separately'?

Why do clothes dryers have buzzers that go off when the drying cycle is done, but you just have to guess for the washing machine?

[SmokeyBob]

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

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed; else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

[SmokeyBob]

Work isn't to make money, you work to justify life.
~Marc Chagall

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~Aristotle

[SmokeyBob]

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their paths by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
~ William Mather Lewis

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~ J.B. Priestly

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore, they attempt the impossible; and achieve it, generation after generation.
~ Pearl S. Buck

[SmokeyBob]

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
~ Pierre Corneille

The basic building block of good communication is the feeling that every human being is unique and of value.
~ Unknown

Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
~ Thomas Carlyle

[SmokeyBob]

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
~Edward R. Murrow

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
~John F. Kennedy

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
~Napoleon Bonaparte

[SmokeyBob]

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
~ William F. Scolavino

I began my education at a very early age. In fact, right after I left college.
~ Winston Churchill

The most damaging phrase in the language is "It's always been done that way."
~ Grace Hopper

[SmokeyBob]

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
~Francis Marion Crawford

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust. Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~Minot J. Savage

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb and beauty weeps the brave.
~Joseph Drake

[SmokeyBob]

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
~Alan Paton

Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
~E. Merrill Root

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin

[SmokeyBob]

The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
~ Thomas Szasz

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
~ William Faulkner

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
~ Henry Ford

[SmokeyBob]

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
~J. Harold Wilkins

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
~Unknown

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~Samuel Johnson

[SmokeyBob]

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
~Pete Seeger

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
~Brendan Francis

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~Thomas A. Edison