Random Thoughtful Thoughts

 

"If you aren't where you are, you are no place."  (Col. Potter, M*A*S*H)

From Henry David Thoreau:

• The universe is wider than our views of it
• It's not worthwhile to go round the world to count cats in Zanzibar
• Things do not change; we change
• Money is not required to buy the necessities of the soul
• Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?

"The counsel of fools is all the more dangerous the more of them there are." (King Olaf of Norway, 938-1006 AD)

"Never suppress a generous thought."  (Camilla Kimball, 1894-1987)

"Too often we hear what we want to hear instead of what we should have heard."  (Brent L. Top, author)

"Disappointment comes to visit on occasion but should never be allowed to stay."  (Richard Norby, author)

"The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces."  (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister)

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."  (Chief Seattle)

"They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives."  (Frank Herbert, Children of Dune) 

You may quote any of these, anytime and to anybody. (smile)

Say Goodbye To The Penny

 

Did you catch the recent news story that the U.S. Mint won't be making anymore pennies. Why? Well the story explains that it costs $3.69 to make a single penny, that's why. But shed no tears yet, there are still an estimated 300 billion pennies remaining in circulation and they are still legal tender.

But consider some oft-quoted expressions that soon will fade:

• A penny for your thoughts
• Cost a pretty penny
• A penny saved is a penny earned
• Find a penny, pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck.
• No more "pinching pennies"
• Worth every penny
• I'll give you my 2-cents worth
• Penny-wise and pound-foolish
• He's a 2-bit criminal

What about my favorite penny, the 1943 zinc coated steel penny...... so made to save copper for the wartime effort:

Introducing myself, I often say "I was born the year of the Black Penny....who knows what that is?"  And most do not. When I was about eight years old, I collected a pint jar of black pennies.....wish I still had them today.