Thought for Today

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."

~~~~~ Theophile Gautier

Thought for Today

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

~~~~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Thought for Today

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

~~~~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (presciently writing about Obama?)

Thought for Today

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

~~~~~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Thought for Today

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

~~~~~ Mother Teresa (on abortion)

Thought for Today

"Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can."

~~~~~ William Feather

Thought for Today

"Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand."

~~~~~ Robert G. Allen

Thought for Today

"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you."

~~~~~ George Matthew Adams

Thought for Today

"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."

~~~~~ Charles Fillmore

Thought for Today

"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."

~~~~~ Jules Michelet

Thought for Today

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."

~~~~~ Al Lopez

Thought for Today

"To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up."

~~~~~ Ogden Nash

Thought for Today

"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment."

~~~~~ Marshall Field

Thought for Today

"Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks."

~~~~~ Davy Crockett

Thought for Today

"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market."

~~~~~ E. F. Schumacher

Thought for Today

"Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures."

~~~~~ Thomas de Quincey

Thought for Today

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

~~~~~ John Galsworthy

Thought for Today

"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."

~~~~~ Felix Adler

Thought for Today

"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."

~~~~~ Julius Rosenwald

Thought for Today

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

~~~~~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Thought for Today

"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."

~~~~~ Camillo di Cavour

Thought for Today

"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

~~~~~ Izaak Walton

Thought for Today

"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."

~~~~~ Lord John Russell

Thought for Today

"These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong."

~~~~~ Powell Clayton

Thought for Today

"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."

~~~~~ Daniel O'Connell

Thought for Today

"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

~~~~~ Bruce Barton

Thought for Today

"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."

~~~~~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thought for Today

"You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain."

~~~~~ Stanley Baldwin

Thought for Today

"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."

~~~~~ Irving Babbitt

Thought for Today

"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."

~~~~~ Maria Mitchell