Thought for Friday, Oct 30, 2009

Golden Oldie

Worry is the darkroom
where negatives are developed.

-Heard on the radio 2001/06/04
by Michael J. Ciha

Thought for Thursday, Oct 29, 2009

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If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours.
-- Clarence Day

Thought for Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009

Golden Oldie

All men make mistakes,
but married men find out
about them sooner.

-Red Skelton

Quotes of the Day
Friday the 13th, 2001

Thought for Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009

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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

Thought for Monday, Oct 26, 2009

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Coward, n.:
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Thought for Friday, Oct 23, 2009

Golden Oldie

The 50-50-90 rule:

Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something
right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

-The Lion
February 2001

And it looks like the automatic distribution was one of the 50-50
chances. -tftd

Thought for Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009

Golden Oldie

A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.

-The Lion
February, 2001

Thought for Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009

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

Thought for Monday, Oct 19, 2009

Golden Oldie

If you don't like someone,
the way he holds his spoon makes you furious;

if you like him,
he can turn his plate over
into your lap and you won't mind.

-Irving Becker

Thought for Friday, Oct 16, 2009

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

Thought for Thursday, Oct 15, 2009

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

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tftd - This may be OK for the general public
but inappropriate for the Aggie Band.

Thought for Wednesday, Oct 14, 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

Thought for Tuesday, Oct 13, 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

Thought for Monday, Oct 12, 2009

Absence of evidence is not
evidence of absence.

-Carl Sagan
US astronomer & popularizer
of astronomy (1934 - 1996)
quotationspage.com

Thought for Friday, Oct 9, 2009

Decision is a sharp knife that cut
clean and straight. Indecision is
a dull one that hacks and tears
and leaves ragged edges behind.

-Ian McKeithen
Daryl R. Gibson's
Weekday Wisdom

*******
I think I will vote "Present" or maybe not. -tftd

Thought for Thursday, Oct 8, 2009

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While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don't
keep an eye on can make an awful mess of your stove.
-- Edward Stevenson

Thought for Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009

Golden Oldie
First published tftd
11/04/88

It's not my place
To run the train
The whistle I can't blow
It's not my place
To say how far
The train's allowed to go

It's not my place
To shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell
But let the train once
Jump the track....
Then see who catches hell.

-On the wall of the Stationmaster's Office,
Grand Central Terminal

(Also seen in Korea circa 1965 at
an especially appropriate moment.)

Thought for Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009

Golden Oldie

The Pepper and Salt Association wants to turn the
English language outside in, wants phrases changed
kaboodle and kit. People should listen to roll 'n'
rock, eat butter and bread, and travel fro and to.

Why? Because what this country needs is a sense of
wrong and right, fair play and justice, order and law.
There are cons and pros, but true believers will
consider it a matter of death and life, a swim or
sink proposition.

-Press Release
Pepper and Salt Association
Alabama, Birmingham

Thought for Monday, Oct 5, 2009

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer you get to the end the
faster it goes.

-Puns of the Day
9/30/09

Thought for Friday, Oct 2, 2009

Some folks are wise,
and some are otherwise.

-Tobias Smollett
Bits and Pieces
September 2009

Thought for Thursday, Oct 1, 2009

Just because it's hard
doesn't mean it's impossible.

-Dude Perfect
Group that has many trick shots on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNJxodKrZY&feature=fvst