Thought for Today

"The more I see of men the more I like dogs."

~~~~~ Madame de Stael

Thought for Today

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."

~~~~~ Gelett Burgess

Thought for Today

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

~~~~~ Lord John Russell

Thought for Today

"Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with."

~~~~~ Charles Farrar Browne

Thought for Today

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

~~~~~ Hippolyte Taine

Thought for Today

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."

~~~~~ Clarence Darrow

Thought for Today

"Earnestness is stupidity sent to college."

~~~~~ P. J. O'Rourke

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

Thought for Today

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."

~~~~~ Gelett Burgess

Thought for Today

"We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through."

~~~~~ Sam Levenson

Thought for Today

"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."

~~~~~ Franklin Pierce Adams

Thought for Today

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

~~~~~ J. B. Priestley

Thought for Today

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

~~~~~ Charles Bukowski

Thought for Today

"Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles."

~~~~~ Camillo di Cavour

Thought for Today

"Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth."

~~~~~ Arthur Goldberg

Thought for Today

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, But his books were read."

~~~~~ Hilaire Belloc

Thought for Today

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

~~~~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Thought for Today

"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."

~~~~~ Finley Peter Dunne

Thought for Today

"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."

~~~~~ Elbert Hubbard

Thought for Today

"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"

~~~~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton