Thought For The Day - Archive
Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. - Eddie Kovacs
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory. - Albert Schweitzer
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. - Khalil Gibran
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughn
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life. - Emo Philips
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. - Kurt Vonnegut
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. - Rabindranath Tagore
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. - Flann O'Brien
Don't take life too seriously - you'll never get our alive. - Bugs Bunny
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - W.C.Fields
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. - Joan Rivers
Employee of the Month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time. - Demetri Martin
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen
Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. - Scott Adams
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. - Monica Baldwin
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. - George Gobal
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. - Kin Hubbard
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. - Pete Seeger
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? - Oscar Wilde
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. - Art Buchwald
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. - Thor Heyerdhal
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Soren Kierkegaard
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. - Andre Gide
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.- Jalal al-Din Rumi
I wouldn't mind the rat race -- if the rats would lose once in a while. - Tom Wilson
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. - Jacques Benigne Bossuel
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sydney J. Harris
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. - Leo J. Burke
