Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Thought for Today

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled."

~~~~~ Ross Perot

Friday, October 26, 2012

Thought for Today

"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent."

~~~~~ Napoleon Hill

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Thought for Today

"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."

~~~~~ Margaret Thatcher

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Thought for Today

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

~~~~~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Thought for Today

"When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have."

~~~~~ Owen Wister

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Thought for Today

"Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible – every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed."

~~~~~ David Hackworth

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Thought for Today

"One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must."

~~~~~ B. Carroll Reece

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Thought for Today

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

~~~~~ C. S. Lewis

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Thought for Today

"The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation."

~~~~~ Dixie Lee Ray

Monday, May 23, 2011

Thought for Today

"Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis."

~~~~~ Alfred P. Sloan

Friday, April 29, 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Thought for Today

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

~~~~~ Thomas Jefferson

Friday, February 18, 2011

Thought for Today

"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."

~~~~~ Albert Pike

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Thought for Today

"You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think."

~~~~~ Howard H. Baker, Jr.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Thought for Today

"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."

~~~~~ Sarah Palin

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Thought for Today

"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."

~~~~~ An Wang

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Thought for Today

"You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people."

~~~~~ Will Rogers

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Thought for Today

"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

~~~~~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Thought for Today

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."

~~~~~ Oliver Goldsmith