Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

Never eat more than you can lift.
~ Miss Piggy

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
~ Andrew W. Mathis

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.

[SmokeyBob]

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...
~Sir Norman Wisdom

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age.
~Benjamin Spock

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
~Quentin Crisp

[SmokeyBob]

Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
~ Harvey Fierstein

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Paul Boese

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
~ Albert Einstein

[SmokeyBob]

"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
~ Ruth Weston

Flattery looks like friendship, just as a wolf looks like a dog.
~Unknown

"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."
~Marshall McLuhan

[SmokeyBob]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~Albert Einstein

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
~J.R.R. Tolkien

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. "
~Woody Allen

[SmokeyBob]

It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Moralality is a compass forever fixed and forever true. It's not a weathervane blowing with the winds.
~ Unknown

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot

[SmokeyBob]

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
--James A. Garfield

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
--Shana Alexander

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
--G.H. Hardy

[SmokeyBob]

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
~ Grover Cleveland

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
~David Augsburger

I believe the recipe for happiness is just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.
~ J. Kenfield Morley

[SmokeyBob]

"Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife."
~ Francis William Bourdillon

"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies, is lunch."
~ Michael Friedman

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'"
~ Winnie the Pooh

[SmokeyBob]

Success is a journey, not a destination.
~Ben Sweetland


Never fight an inanimate object.
~P. J. O'Rourke

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
~George Jean Nathan

[SmokeyBob]

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after awhile, he gets to know something.
~Wilson Mizner

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

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
~ Horace

[SmokeyBob]

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
~ Unknown

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
~ Tom Clancy

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealized past.
~ Robertson Davies

[SmokeyBob]

Find ecstasy in life. The mere sense of living is joy enough.
~Emily Dickinson

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
~Oscar Wilde

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~William Hazlitt

[SmokeyBob]

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man. It is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
~ James A. Garfield

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that luck is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
~ Unknown

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole, experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~ Helen Keller

[SmokeyBob]

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
~ Harold B. Melchart

There is no better time than right now to be happy.
~ Unknown

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
~ Samuel Johnson