Quote for the day

[Esmeralda]

"When all think alike, no one thinks very much" – Walter Lippmann

 

[Ava]

Motherhood: All love begins and end there.-- Robert Browning

 

[Ava]

"Champions know success is inevitable; there is no failure, only feedback. They know the best way to forecast the future is to create it."

 

[Statistikhengst]

"Champions know success is inevitable; there is no failure, only feedback. They know the best way to forecast the future is to create it."

Amen.

 

[Esmeralda]

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze

 

[Esmeralda]

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot

 

[Esmeralda]

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
—Cale Yarborough

 

[Esmeralda]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

 

[Esmeralda]

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska

 

[Esmeralda]

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

 

[Esmeralda]

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

 

[Esmeralda]

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide

 

[Ava]

“ Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ” — Erica Jong

 

[Againsheila]

 

[Againsheila]

I want to thank you all for keeping this thread going. I am truly surprised. Most threads I make don't get past the first day.

 

[Esmeralda]

Murphy's Law
The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.

 

[Esmeralda]

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

[Esmeralda]

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
― Abraham Lincoln

 

[Esmeralda]

“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

 

[Esmeralda]

“But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon