A Thought a Week

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. -- Voltaire


"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson

"Go the extra mile. It's never crowded." - Executive Speedwriter Newsletter

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

"Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket." - Robert Orben

"It's easy to get good players. Gettin' 'em to play together, that's the hard part." - Casey Stengel

"A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton

"... skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." - Wayne Gretzky

"I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." - Mark Twain

"When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for the estimate." - Phyllis Diller

"In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." - Andy Warhol

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks GO!" - Christopher Morley

"A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast." - Groucho Marx

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with." - W. C. Fields

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse." - Kimberly Johnson

"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy." - Sam Levenson

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." - Jerry Seinfeld

"My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles Kettering

"You never know when you're making a memory." - Rickie Lee Jones

"A genius is a talented person who does his homework." - Thomas Edison

"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows." - Erma Bombeck

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot -- but I always found them." - Rodney Dangerfield

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have to hire public relations writers." - Daniel J. Boorstin

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." - James Matthew Barrie

"Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow." - Tom Wilson

"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Vince Lombardi

"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an acessible ear." - Maya Angelou

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." - Mae West

"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." - Woodrow Wilson

"Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet." - Dan Bennett

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." - Jim Fiebig

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Mark Twain

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." - Peter F. Drucker

"A man who doesn't stand for something will fall for anything." - Peter Marshall

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." - W. A. Nance

"Imagination is the true magic carpet." - Norman Vincent Peale

"The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever." - Bud Meyer

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad." - Arnold H. Glasow

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." - Hada Bejar

"Top cars often begin as underdogs." - Bernard Meltzer

"One thought driven home is better than three left on base." - James Liter

"Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience, someone things up a new course." - Mary H. Waldrip

"Change starts when someone sees the next step." William Drayton

"life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling." - Claude Pepper

"To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." - Sugar Ray Robinson

"Your expression is the most important thing you wear." - Sid Ascher

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." - Eric Hoffer

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it." - Unknown

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