Thought for Today

[rd45usa]

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.--John F Kennedy

 

[Clutch]

Mark Twain....
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

 

[Greg]

"Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical"

-Yogi Berra

 

[rd45usa]

Ships don't sink because of water around them, ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.

 

[Greg]

"An individual will miss out on so wonderful and fascinating moments in life if they are always classy and never just a little bit sleazy"

Greg, September 2022

 

[rd45usa]

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth --Plato.

 

[rd45usa]

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

 

[StandOnIt]

"The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum." - George Bernard Shaw

 

[rd45usa]

There are many paths in life. But the longest of them all is the path to the heart. If you resist this path, you will take lifetimes to find it again. If you surrender and embrace it, you'll be home.---Mateo Sol.

 

[rd45usa]

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. ---Turkish proverb

 

[Greg]

"I didn't give you the finger you earned it"
-Bill Murray

 

[Greg]

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
-Mark Twain

(Note equal opportunity offending for the humor not an argument for either side)

 

[Greg]

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
-Mark Twain

 

[rd45usa]

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.--Frederic Bastiat

 

[Whizzer]

“It seems I have spent a lifetime of mouthing mechanically, ‘Say thank you. Sit up straight. Use your napkin. Close your mouth when you chew. Don’t lean back in your chair.’ Just when I finally got my husband squared away, the kids came along.” — Erma Bombeck

 

[Greg]

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
-Rodney Dangerfield

 

[Greg]

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-Vince Lombardi

 

[rd45usa]

Never give up!

 

[Greg]

"It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chew Your As$ Out All Day Long"
-Rodney Crowell/ Vince Gill

 

[BobbyFord]

"It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chew Your As$ Out All Day Long"
-Rodney Crowell/ Vince Gill

The Bombs

 

[rd45usa]

“Sometimes you can’t tell people the truth. You have to show them!”

 

[Greg]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
-Albert Einstein

 

[Greg]

The road to success is always under construction.
-Lily Tomlin

 

[Greg]

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

[Turtle84]

"It's not what you get that makes you valuable it's what you become." -Jim Rohn

 

[Charlie Spencer]

“It seems I have spent a lifetime of mouthing mechanically, ‘Say thank you. Sit up straight. Use your napkin. Close your mouth when you chew. Don’t lean back in your chair.’ Just when I finally got my husband squared away, the kids came along.” — Erma Bombeck

Thanks for that one. I miss Erma, Lewis Grizzard, and Art Buchwald. At least Dave Barry is still at it.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

"We are the people our parents warned us about."

Jimmy Buffett, again.

 

[StandOnIt]

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien.

 

[Greg]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Greg]

"I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder"
-Steven Wright

 

[Greg]

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
-Will Rogers

 

[Turtle84]

"You are only one thought away from a good feeling" -Sheila Krystal

 

[Greg]

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."
-Babe Ruth

 

[Greg]

"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night"
-Dave Barry

 

[Greg]

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"
-Frederick Douglass

 

[racingfan7]

Does a bear **** in the woods? -Unknown

 

[Whizzer]

Yes!! They do!!

 

[Greg]

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato

 

[Greg]

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"
-Alice Walker

 

[rd45usa]

You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward, -- Steve Jobs