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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 24, 2011 12:26:20 GMT -5
Thought of the day: "People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them." -- Philip Guedalla, British writer (1889-1944) Quote of the Day: "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." -- Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603) Quote of the Moment: "You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." -- Charles Lynch, Virginia jurist (1736-1796)
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 25, 2011 9:36:39 GMT -5
Thought of the day: "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods particularly if the goods are worthless." -- Sinclair Lewis, Nobel Prize-winning author (1885-1951) Quote of the Day: "The meek shall inherit nothing." -- Frank Zappa, rock legend (1940-1993) sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img]Quote of the Moment: "Music makes one feel so romantic--at least it always gets on one's nerves--which is the same thing nowadays." -- Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright & poet (1854--1900)
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 26, 2011 7:22:07 GMT -5
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 27, 2011 8:28:45 GMT -5
Thought of the day: "A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong." -- Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist & poet (1828-1906) Quote of the Day: "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." -- Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright (1732-1799) Quote of the Moment: "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." -- William Arthur Ward, inspirational writer (1921-1994)
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 28, 2011 9:03:35 GMT -5
Thought of the day: "Beware of monotony, it's the mother of all the deadly sins." -- Edith Wharton, author (1862-1937) www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/chaplin.gif [/img]Quote of the Day: "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the US (1890-1969) sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img]Quote of the Moment: "The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had." Anonymous.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 29, 2011 12:27:04 GMT -5
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 30, 2011 6:52:54 GMT -5
Thought of the day: "Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it." -- Louis Kronenberger, drama critic (1904-1980) www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/chaplin.gif [/img]Quote of the Day: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas A. Edison, inventor (1847-1931) sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img]Quote of the Moment: "In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its ethics. -- J. William Fulbright, IS Senator [D-Ark, 1945-75] (1905-1995)
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 31, 2011 10:03:05 GMT -5
Thought of the day: "The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it." -- Don Marquis, journalist, poet & dramatist (1878-1923) www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/chaplin.gif [/img]Quote of the Day: "To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent." -- Berton Averre, guitarist with The Knack (b. 1953) sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img]Quote of the Moment: "It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the reality of tomorrow." --Dr. Robert H. Goddard, rocket scientist (1882-1945
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 1, 2011 8:47:27 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand." -- Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw], author (1818-1885) Quote of the Day: "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." -- Albert Schweitzer Alsatian theologian & medical missionary (1875-1965) Quote of the Moment: "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." -- George E. Woodberry, critic & poet (1855-1930)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 2, 2011 8:32:03 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action." -- Midge Decter, neoconservative writer (b. 1927) : Quote of the Day: "The gods too are fond of a joke." -- Aristotle, Green philosopher (384 BC-322 BC) : Quote of the Moment: "A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing." -- Hesiod, ancient Greek poet (8th century B.C.)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 3, 2011 12:16:21 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full." -- Marcel Proust, French writer (1871-1922) Quote of the Day: "My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself." -- Henny Youngman, comedian (1906-1998) Quote of the Moment: "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." -- Peter F. Drucker, management consultant (1909-2005)
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Post by susala on Aug 4, 2011 0:07:24 GMT -5
Wow, I didn't know that Henny Youngman lived until 1998. I never quite understood why but he always made me laugh.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 4, 2011 0:42:32 GMT -5
sus-- I always had the same reaction to him. I'd look at him and think he'll never make ME laugh and then he'd come out with one of his one-liners and I was lost.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 4, 2011 8:54:28 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying." --G. K. Chesterton, English poet-essayist (1874-1936)
Quote of the Day: "Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." --Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855)
Quote of the Moment: "The aim and final reason of all music should be nothing else but the Glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit." --Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (1685-1750)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 5, 2011 11:10:09 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." --George S. Patton, General, US Army (1885-1945)
Quote of the Day: "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools." --Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1857-1959)
Quote of the Moment: "Never confuse movement with action." --Ernest Hemingway, Nobel laureate novelist (1899-1961)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 6, 2011 13:50:51 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "The more things you do, the more you can do." --Lucille Ball, comedienne (1911-1989 - today is the 100th anniversary of her birth)
Quote of the Day: "A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them." --Leonard Louis Levinson, writer (1904-1974)
Quote of the Moment: "talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." --Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 6, 2011 15:21:16 GMT -5
It was on this day in 1806 that Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, abdicated his throne and formally dissolved the Holy Roman Empire. It had been in decline for over a century and a half, and the Habsburgs maintained pretensions of Empire through 1918, but like all political empires it ended.
"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself." - Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822
"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual." - Frank Herbert, 1920 - 1986
"It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of its own power: all its ends become means; all its attainments help to new conquests." - Daniel Webster, 1782 - 1852
"But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality." - Adam Smith, 1723 - 1790
"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor." - Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 7, 2011 5:37:27 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." --Agnes Repplier, essayist (1858-1950)
Quote of the Day: "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James, psychologist & philosopher (1842-1910)
Quote of the Moment: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." --George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 8, 2011 7:24:23 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Man adjusts to what he should not; he is unable to adjust to what he should." --Jean Toomer, African-American author (1894-1967) Quote of the Day: "I have never let m schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain, author (1835-1910)
Quote of the Moment: "Glory is like a circle in the water,/ Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,/ Till by broad spraing it disperses to naught." --William Shakespeare, English playwright (1564-1616).
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Post by soflamom on Aug 8, 2011 7:46:34 GMT -5
"A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul" - Jillian Michaels (at least I read this in her book - not sure if she borrowed it from someone else).
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