Thursday, May 31, 2012

Thought for Today

"If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done."

~~~~~ Norman Vincent Peale

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Thought for Today

"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."

~~~~~ Alfred A. Montapert

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Thought for Today

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

~~~~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Monday, May 28, 2012

Thought for Today

"Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying."

~~~~~ William Pitt

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Thought for Today

"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

~~~~~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Thought for Today

"No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses."

~~~~~ Edward Livingston

Friday, May 25, 2012

Thought for Today

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

~~~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Thought for Today

"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."

~~~~~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Thought for Today

"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."

~~~~~ Thomas Hood

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Thought for Today

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

~~~~~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Monday, May 21, 2012

Thought for Today

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."

~~~~~ Charlotte Bronte

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Thought for Today

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

~~~~~ Honore de Balzac

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Thought for Today

"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."

~~~~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Friday, May 18, 2012

Thought for Today

"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."

~~~~~ Josephus Daniels

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Thought for Today

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

~~~~~ Eric Hoffer

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Thought for Today

"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

~~~~~ Thomas Szasz

Monday, May 14, 2012

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Thought for Today

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

~~~~~ Daphne du Maurier

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Friday, May 11, 2012

Thought for Today

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

~~~~~ Isaac D'Israeli

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Thought for Today

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

~~~~~ Ariel Durant

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Thought for Today

"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."

~~~~~ Friedrich August von Hayek

Monday, May 7, 2012

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Thought for Today

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

~~~~~ Orson Welles

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Thought for Today

"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

~~~~~ Soren Kierkegaard

Friday, May 4, 2012

Thought for Today

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

~~~~~ W. Clement Stone

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Thought for Today

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

~~~~~ Edgar Watson Howe

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Thought for Today

"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."

~~~~ Robert Hall

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Thought for Today

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

~~~~ Joseph Addison