Monday, July 19, 2010

Thought for Today

"I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."

~~~~~ Rudyard Kipling

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Thought for Today

"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."

~~~~~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Thought for Today

"When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble."

~~~~~ Sam Rayburn

Friday, July 16, 2010

Thought for Today

"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."

~~~~~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Thought for Today

"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."

~~~~~ Albert Jay Nock

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Thought for Today

"Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts."

~~~~~ Francis Bacon

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Thought for Today

"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."

~~~~~ Edgar Watson Howe

Monday, July 12, 2010

Thought for Today

"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."

~~~~~ Horace Greeley

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Thought for Today

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten'."

~~~~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That, in a nutshell, is why Obama is not, never was, and never will be a leader.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Thought for Today

"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."

~~~~~ Heinrich Heine