More Random Thoughts

 

"Speaking kindly to others can be a challenge if we are convinced that we can clean up the world with the mop and pail of our own knowledge and opinions."  (unknown)

"Worry is a blob monster, slowly and relentlessly engulfing everything it touches."  (Matthew 6:31)

"Money, even if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort."  (Helen Gurley Brown)

"The trick is to stop thinking of it as your money."  (IRS auditor)

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you an prove that you don't need it."  (Bob Hope)

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."  (Oscar Wilde)

"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments."  (Earl Wilson)

"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist." (Franklin Jones)

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something."  (Jackie Mason)

"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin."  (Mark Twain)

And lastly, my favorite:  "Recognize and beware that our time is short and life has a way of consuming the time we have."  (Ephesians 5:16)

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)