Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday,
the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the
people of these States to the service of that great
and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of
all the good that was, that is, or that will be;
that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him
our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and
protection of the people of this country previous to
their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold
mercies and the favorable interpositions of His
providence in the course and conclusion of the late
war; for the great degree of tranquility, union,
and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the
peaceable and rational manner in which we have been
enable to establish constitutions of government for
our safety and happiness, and particularly the
national one now lately instituted for the
civil and religious liberty with which we are
blessed, and the means we have of acquiring
and diffusing usefulknowledge; and, in general,
for all the great and various favors which
He has been pleased to confer upon us.
...
-George Washington, President
3 Oct 1789
http://wilstar.com/holidays/wash_thanks.html
First official presidential
proclamation issued in the US.
Be willing to make decisions.
That's the most important quality in a good leader.
-General George S. Patton
General George S. Patton quotes
It is impossible to defeat
an ignorant man in argument.
-William G. McAdoo,
lawyer and politician
(1863-1941)
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere
is the man who manages to make no
decisions and escape all responsibility.
-Brooks Atkinson,
Once Around the Sun, 1951
(1894 - 1984)
Golden Oldie
Life moves pretty fast.
Ya don't stop and look
around once in a while,
ya gonna miss it!
-Ferris Bueller (on his day off)
(Penny Pennington's TodaysThought 2001/06/06)
With tomorrow being Thanksgiving, I won't be sending out Thoughts until next Mon. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Golden Oldie
On Patience
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs
as clothes do against cold. For if you put on
more clothes as the cold increases, it will
have no power to hurt you. So in like manner
you must grow in patience when you meet with
great wrongs, and they will then be powerless
to vex your mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Artist, architect and engineer
Cited in BITS & PIECES
BITS & PIECES: Home Delivery 2001/08/16
The problem with people who have no vices
is that generally you can be pretty sure
they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
-Elizabeth Taylor
From Penny Pennington
*
Don't be humble ... you're not that great.
-- Golda Meir
Golden Oldie
As I remember it, the biggest disappointment about growing up
was finding out that adults didn't really have any secret
knowledge about what to do in times of trouble.
-Beryl Pfizer
*
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Golden Oldie
Worry is the darkroom
where negatives are developed.
-Heard on the radio 2001/06/04
by Michael J. Ciha
*
If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours.
-- Clarence Day
*
People who have what they want
are very fond of telling people
who haven't what they want
that they don't want it.
-Ogden Nash
*
Coward, n.:
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Golden Oldie
A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.
-The Lion
February, 2001
Every day is a Saturday,
unless it is Sunday.
I still wear a watch because I
do not want to be late going
nowhere to do nothing.
When asked what am I doing now that
I am retired - I answer, little
as I can and mostly what I please.
-Ruminations from Herr Kemper
on Retirement
My spelling is Wobbly.
It's good spelling but
it Wobbles, and the letters
get in the wrong places.
-A. A. Milne (1882-1958)
From Daryl R. Gibson's
Weekday Wisdom
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer,
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quoted in Bits and Pieces
October 2009
Given three requisites - means of existence,
reasonable health, and an absorbing interest-
those years beyond sixty can be the happiest
and most satisfying of a lifetime.
- Earnest Elmo Calkins
Bits and Pieces Oct 2009
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself
but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
_The Valley of Fear_
Bits and Pieces Oct 2009
