"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
~~~~~ Truman Capote
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Thought for Today
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Thought for Today
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
~~~~~ Ludwig von Mises
Monday, September 28, 2015
Thought for Today
"Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more."
~~~~~ Georges Clemenceau
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Thought for Today
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
~~~~~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Thought for Today
"That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth."
~~~~~ Nassau William Senior
Friday, September 25, 2015
Thought for Today
"Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew."
~~~~~ Eric Williams
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Thought for Today
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
~~~~~ Horace Walpole
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Thought for Today
"Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!"
~~~~~ Jane Taylor
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Thought for Today - Tuesday, September 22, 2015
"I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later."
~~~~~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Monday, September 21, 2015
Thought for Today
"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."
~~~~~ John Kluge
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Thought for Today
"All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible."
~~~~~ Leo Strauss
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Thought for Today
"And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed."
~~~~~ Lajos Kossuth
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Thought for Today
"Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them."
~~~~~ Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Thought for Today
"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton."
~~~~~ James Cash Penney
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Thought for Today
"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity."
~~~~~ James Fenimore Cooper
Monday, September 14, 2015
Thought for Today
"A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other."
~~~~~ John Gould
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Thought for Today
"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."
~~~~~ Julius Charles Hare
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Thought for Today
"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
~~~~~ H. L. Mencken
Friday, September 11, 2015
Thought for Today
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books – repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
~~~~~ D. H. Lawrence
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Thought for Today
"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."
~~~~~ Carl Clinton Van Doren
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Thought for Today
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
~~~~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Thought for Today
"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."
~~~~~ Sid Caesar
Monday, September 7, 2015
Thought for Today
"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
~~~~~ Edith Sitwell
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Thought for Today
"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties."
~~~~~ Marquis de Lafayette
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Thought for Today
"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."
~~~~~ Christoph Martin Wieland
Friday, September 4, 2015
Thought for Today
"Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be."
~~~~~ Paul Harvey
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Thought for Today
"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."
~~~~~ Loren Eiseley
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Thought for Today
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
~~~~~ Alan K. Simpson
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Thought for Today
"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."
~~~~~ Kin Hubbard
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