DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
4/1/06 |
"This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four." - Mark Twain
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4/2/06 |
"The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so." - David Hume
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4/3/06 |
"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees." - William Shakespeare
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4/4/06 |
"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." - Samuel Johnson
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4/5/06 |
"To know another language is to have a second soul." - Charlemagne
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4/6/06 |
"Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli
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4/7/06 |
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - General Patton
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4/8/06 |
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men." - Plato
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4/9/06 |
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol
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4/10/06 |
"Indeed, there are no easy correlations between parental ideology, class or race and 'successful' child development. Many children the world over have revealed a kind of toughness and plasticity that make the determined efforts of some parents to spare their children the slightest pain seem ironic." - Robert Coles
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4/11/06 |
"Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference." - Charles Nalin
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4/12/06 |
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.'' - William James
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4/13/06 |
"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." - Basil King
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4/14/06 |
"Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, 'I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.' " - Samuel Johnson
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4/15/06 |
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." - Plutarch
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4/16/06 |
"It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you." - William C. Menninger
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4/17/06 |
"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops." - Thomas J. Watson
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4/18/06 |
"Conquer yourself not the world." - Rene Descartes
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4/19/06 |
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer." - Henry David Thoreau
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4/20/06 |
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison
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4/21/06 |
"There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
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4/22/06 |
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." - John Stuart Mill
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4/23/06 |
"A good parent is only as happy as their most unhappy child." - Mrs. R. C. Goorney
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4/24/06 |
"Life is a voyage that is homeward bound." - Herman Melville
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4/25/06 |
"A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Moore
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4/26/06 |
"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life, which are the real ones after all." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
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4/27/06 |
"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry Thoreau
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4/28/06 |
"The impulse of tragedy is on to life and more life." - Eugene O'Neill
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4/29/06 |
"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance." - Edmund Burke
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4/30/06 |
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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