Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Thought for Today

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."

~~~~~ Pam Brown

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Thought for Today

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

~~~~~ Theophile Gautier

Monday, August 29, 2011

Thought for Today

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."

~~~~~ Charles F. Kettering

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Thought for Today

"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."

~~~~~ Robertson Davies

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Thought for Today

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."

~~~~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Friday, August 26, 2011

Thought for Today

"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it."

~~~~~ Elmer Davis

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Thought for Today

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."

~~~~~ John Newton

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Thought for Today

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

~~~~~ Orson Scott Card

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Thought for Today

"Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."

~~~~ Vera Rubin

Monday, August 22, 2011

Thought for Today

"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."

~~~~~ Norman Schwarzkopf

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Thought for Today

"Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect."

~~~~~ Thomas S. Monson

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Thought for Today

"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."

~~~~~ Paul Tillich

Friday, August 19, 2011

Thought for Today

"Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists."

~~~~~ Fred Thompson

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Thought for Today

"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life."

~~~~~ Samuel Goldwyn

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Thought for Today

"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."

~~~~~ E. F. Schumacher

Monday, August 15, 2011

Thought for Today

"Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be."

~~~~~ Phyllis Schlafly

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Thought for Today

"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

~~~~~ Russell Baker

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Thought for Today

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."

~~~~ William Bernbach

Friday, August 12, 2011

Thought for Today

"I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money."

~~~~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Thought for Today

"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged."

~~~~ Frederick W. Smith

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Thought for Today

"Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to."

~~~~ Bob Cousy

Monday, August 8, 2011

Thought for Today

"Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."

~~~~ Sara Teasdale

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Thought for Today

"We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts."

~~~~~ Alan Keyes

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Thought for Today

"I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this – never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening."

~~~~ Alexander Fleming (discoverer of penicillin)

Friday, August 5, 2011

Thought for Today

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

~~~~~ Winston Churchill

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Thought for Today

"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."

~~~~ Louis Armstrong

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Thought for Today

"Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment."

~~~~~ Walter Wriston

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Thought for Today

"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."

~~~~~ Dennis Prager

Monday, August 1, 2011

Thought for Today

"One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent."

~~~~~ Meir Kahane