"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
~~~~~ Edward Fitzgerald
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Thought for Today
Monday, March 30, 2015
Thought for Today
"While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it."
~~~~~ Maimonides
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Thought for Today
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
~~~~~ Eugene McCarthy
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Thought for Today
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
~~~~~ Nelson Algren
Friday, March 27, 2015
Thought for Today
"There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'"
~~~~~ Joko Beck
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Thought for Today
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
~~~~~ Viktor E. Frankl
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Thought for Today
"Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history."
~~~~~ Norman Borlaug
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Thought for Today
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
~~~~~ Olive Schreiner
Monday, March 23, 2015
Thought for Today
"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
~~~~~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Thought for Today
"Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence."
~~~~~ Robert Andrews Millikan
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Thought for Today
"Seventy is wormwood,
Seventy is gall
But it's better to be seventy,
Than not alive at all."
~~~~~ Phyllis McGinley
Friday, March 20, 2015
Thought for Today
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
~~~~~ Henrik Ibsen
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Thought for Today
"An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes."
~~~~~ Brent Scowcroft
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Thought for Today
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."
~~~~~ Jean Ingelow
Monday, March 16, 2015
Thought for Today
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."
~~~~~ Maxim Gorky
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Thought for Today
"It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child."
~~~~~ Augusta, Lady Gregory
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Thought for Today
"When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws."
~~~~~ Joseph P. Bradley
Friday, March 13, 2015
Thought for Today
"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
~~~~~ Joseph Priestley
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Thought for Today
"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
~~~~~ George Berkeley
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Thought for Today
"To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise."
~~~~~ Vannevar Bush
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Thought for Today
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."
~~~~~ Chuck Norris
Monday, March 9, 2015
Thought for Today
"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."
~~~~~ Leland Stanford
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Thought for Today
"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
~~~~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Thought for Today
"The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it."
~~~~~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Thought for Today
"The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character."
~~~~~ Lucy Larcom
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Thought for Today
"We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains."
~~~~~ Knute Rockne
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Thought for Today
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
~~~~~ William Godwin
Monday, March 2, 2015
Thought for Today
"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
~~~~~ Carl Schurz
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Thought for Today
"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."
~~~~~ William Dean Howells
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