Friday, December 20th, 2013

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
                -Charles de Montesquieu,
                 philosopher and writer (1689-1755)
                 A Word A Day  29Apr2013

Thursday, December 19th, 2013

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Afternoon, n.:

        That part of the day we spend worrying
        about how we wasted the morning.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

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The government [is] extremely fond of amassing great quantities of
statistics.  These are raised to the _ nth degree, the cube roots are
extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive
displays.  What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every
case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.
                -- Sir Josiah Stamp

Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

 "I'm just tryin' to keep everything in balance, Woodrow.
         You do more work than you got to, so it's my obligation
         to do less."

                                    -Agustus McCrae
                                     Lonesome Dove
                                     Submitted by Herr Kemper

Notice!

After Fri December 20th, I will be taking some time off of Thought for the day. I will return on Monday, Jan 6th,

Monday, December 16th, 2013

Thought for the day: Golden Oldie

Nothing is really lost.
It's just where it doesn't belong.

-Suzanne Mueller

Friday, December 13th, 2013

  Golden Oldie


     At times our own light goes out and is
     rekindled by a spark from another person.
     Each of us has cause to think with deep
     gratitude of those who have lighted the flame
     within us.

                       -Albert Schweitzer

           From .sig Quotes
           via Penny Pennington's Today's Thought

Thursday, December 12th, 2013

Golden Oldie


       Before you criticize people, you
       should walk a mile in their shoes.
       That way, when you criticize them,
       you've got a mile-long head start. ...
       And you have their shoes.
                      -The Lion

Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

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         To invent,
          you need a good imagination
          and a pile of junk.
                  -Thomas Edison

Monday, December 9th, 2013

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       If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
       As Dame Fortune did intend,
       Murphy would be there to tell me
       The pot's at the other end.


                      -Bert Whitney

Friday, December 6th, 2013

Golden Oldie


   Finish every day and be done with it.
   You have done what you could;
   some blunders and absurdities crept in;
   forget them as soon as you can.
   Tomorrow is a new day;
   You shall begin it serenely and
   with too high a spirit to be encumbered
   with your old nonsense.
               -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

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         I have the simplest tastes.
         I am always satisfied with the best.

                     -Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

I see NOTHING! I know NOTHING!
                       -Sgt Schultz
                        Hogan's Heroes

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

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Chisolm's First Corollary to Murphy's Second Law:
        When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will.