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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
12/01/09 | "A conscience which has been bought once will be bought twice." - Norbert Wiener |
12/02/09 | "Ideas without action are worthless." - Harvey Mackay |
12/03/09 | "Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." - John Dewey |
12/04/09 | "The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control." - Ogden Nash |
12/05/09 | "Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them." - Andy Rooney |
12/06/09 | "Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much." - Albert Schweitzer |
12/07/09 | "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." - George Orwell |
12/08/09 | "A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." - H. G. Wells |
12/09/09 | "Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized." - A. Eustace Haydon |
12/10/09 | "The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober." - William Butler Yeats |
12/11/09 | "Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocritical moralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such." - Georg Hegel |
12/12/09 | "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw |
12/13/09 | "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact." - Edmund Burke |
12/14/09 | "To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects." - Margaret Thatcher |
12/15/09 | "Where there is great love there are always miracles." - Willa Cather |
12/16/09 | "Prejudice is the child of ignorance." - William Hazlitt |
12/17/09 | "Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks ever in the most unlikely swim." - Ovid |
12/18/09 | "Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker Washington |
12/19/09 | "He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things." - George Savile Halifax |
12/20/09 | "Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man." - William Somerville |
12/21/09 | "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Herman Hesse |
12/22/09 | "A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." - Cicero |
12/23/09 | "Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears." - Heraclitus |
12/24/09 | "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!" - Hamilton Wright Mabie |
12/25/09 | "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase |
12/26/09 | "Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive." - Havelock Ellis |
12/27/09 | "Wouldn't life be worth the living Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through?" - Author Unknown |
12/28/09 | "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin |
12/29/09 | "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - Winston Churchill |
12/30/09 | "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke |
12/31/09 | "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." - Hal Borland |
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