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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2009 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
07/01/09"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." - Henry Moore
07/02/09"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." - Norman Douglas
07/03/09"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - Sir William Osler
07/04/09"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin
07/05/09"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France
07/06/09"Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most." - American Proverb
07/07/09"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." - Oscar Wilde
07/08/09"Women prefer to talk in two's, while men prefer to talk in three's." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
07/09/09"A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience." - Samuel Johnson
07/10/09"To cheat one's self out of love is the greatest deception of which there is no reparation in either time or eternity." - Soren Keirkegarrd
07/11/09"Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." - Marlene Dietrich
07/12/09"It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part." - Marcel Proust
07/13/09"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker Washington
07/14/09"A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements." - Arnold Bennett
07/15/09"As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices." - Joseph Conrad
07/16/09"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness." - George Santayana
07/17/09"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." - William James
07/18/09"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage." - Benjamin Franklin
07/19/09"Everybody's friend is nobody's." - Arthur Schopenhauer
07/20/09"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
07/21/09"Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you." - Logan Pearsall Smith
07/22/09"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world." - Blaise Pascal
07/23/09"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." - Samuel Johnson
07/24/09"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
07/25/09"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy." - William Shakespeare
07/26/09"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
07/27/09"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." - Arthur Schopenhauer
07/28/09"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift
07/29/09"In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." - Robert Greene Ingersoll
07/30/09"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - Saint Thomas Aquinas
07/31/09"Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts." - Jean Cocteau


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