Thread: Thoughts of the day.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
----William James

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

--Victor Hugo

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

---Mahatma Gandhi

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.

Seeming to do is not doing.


---Thomas A. Edison

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Erich Fromm

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

----Walt Disney

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Frances Wright

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

----Rabindranath Tagore

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.


----George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

All you need in this life is Ignorance and Confidence; then Success is Sure.

-----Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

-----Napoleon Hill

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

-----George Bernard Shaw

If there is one lesson my life can teach, it is that the spirit is stronger than the body. The hero comes from within.
-Celine Dion Lyrics

The true touchstone of our character is the way we treat those less fortunate than us, not our equals and superiors.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.

----Zig Ziglar