Food for Thought

1. Sloppy is a state of mind; messy is a lack of time.
Christina Bultinck

2. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

3. Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Truman Capote

4. A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

5. Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place.
Billy Crystal(Mitch)in City Slickers(1991)

6. Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Augustine J Duganne

7. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Louis Armstrong

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

9. To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton

10. What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle

11. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

12. Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker

13. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

14. In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

15. In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

16. Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

17. Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Mike Ditka

18. Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
Tim McMahon

19. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

20. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

21. We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher

22. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright

23. The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman

24. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

25. I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham

26. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

27. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

28. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Sir Francis Bacon

29. If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
Thomas Fuller

30. He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.
H. E. Martz

31. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

32. A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Edward Abbey

33. On a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK"
Anonymous

34. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Anonymous

35. If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
Anonymous

36. Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Dave Barry

37. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

38. The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

39. "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink." --Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." --His reply

40. A girl phoned me the other day and said .... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home.
Rodney Dangerfield

41. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger