----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Martinez" <[email protected]> To: "'Cynthia Groopman'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:55 AM Subject: Daily Thoughts
> Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. > --Josh Billings > Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, > it's > a cinch. > --Unknown > Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or > architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. > --Samuel Butler > > You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for > today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows > that > follow. > --Harriet Martineau > Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our > courage > and strength. > --Unknown > The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal > steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. > --Cecil B. DeMille > > "Lost time is never found again." > ~Benjamin Franklin > "The present is a point just passed." > ~David Russell > " > Time is the wisest counsellor of all." > ~Pericles > > "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how > much > you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what > you don't." > ~Anatole France > "I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than > educate people and hope they were entertained." > ~Walt Disney > "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought > without accepting it." > ~Aristotle > > "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." > ~Jean-Luc Godard > "I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a > headache." > ~Bette Davis > "So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" > ~Christina Aguilera > > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the > streets after them." > ~Bill Vaughan > "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a > rat." > ~Lily Tomlin > "There is more to life than increasing its speed." > ~Mohandas Gandhi > > "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." > ~Dean Acheson > "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." > ~Frederick Douglass > "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change > your > attitude." > ~Maya Angelou > > "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends." > ~Herbert Hoover > "Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark > terror." > ~Al Boliska > "An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's." > ~Will Rogers > > "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you > control it." > ~John Steinbeck > "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished." > ~Zsa Zsa Gabor > "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with > the > same person." > ~Mignon McLaughlin > > "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong > reasons." > ~R. Buckminster Fuller > "The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity." > ~Clifford Stoll > "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the > power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life." > ~John F. Kennedy > > "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." > ~Arthur Miller > "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. > Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." > ~Harvey Fierstein > "People living deeply have no fear of death." > ~Anais Nin > > "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently > programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest." > ~Isaac Asimov > "Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?" > ~Clifford Stoll > "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its > meaning." > ~Andy Warhol > > "A joke is a very serious thing." > ~Winston Churchill > "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and > the frog dies of it." > ~E. B. White > "A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke > is > oneself." > ~Clifton Paul Fadiman > > "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." > ~John Burroughs > "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." > ~Mark Twain > "There is still no cure for the common birthday." > ~John Glenn > > "Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with > Mother Nature." > ~Harold Coffin > "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick > boxing." > ~Emo Philips > "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." > ~Steve Wozniak > "I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I > need > to be." > ~Douglas Adams > "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something > completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." > ~Douglas Adams > "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." > ~Douglas Adams > > "If you think it's going to rain, it will." > ~Clint Eastwood > "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." > ~Albert Einstein > "As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and > we're gonna make mistakes." > ~Mel Brooks > > "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be > undertaken with painstaking excellence." > ~Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > "All things are difficult before they are easy." > ~Thomas Fuller > > "Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work." > ~Al Capp > > "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never > remembers her age." > ~Robert Frost > > "Age considers; youth ventures." > ~Rabindranath Tagore > > "No man is ever old enough to know better." > ~Holbrook Jackson > > "He who angers you conquers you." > ~Elizabeth Kenny > I think I am. Therefore I am...I think. > ~George Carlin > "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes > an > hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." > ~C. S. Lewis > > > > > Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? > > Dr. Phil: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that > he must first deal with the problem on "this" side of the road before it > goes after the problem on the "other side" of the road. What we need to do > is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his "current" > problems before adding "new" problems. > > Oprah: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is > why > he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn > from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to > give > this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live > his life like the rest of the chickens. > > George W. Bush: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We > just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The > chicken is either against us or for us. There is no middle ground here. > > Donald Rumsfeld: Now, to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the > satellite image of the chicken crossing the road. > > Anderson Cooper, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we > have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road. > > John Kerry: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now > against it! It was the wrong road to cross and I was misled about the > chicken's intentions. I am for it now and will remain against it. > > Judge Judy: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see > it in his eyes and the way he walks. > > Pat Buchanan: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American. > > Martha Stewart: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was > going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when > the price dropped to a certain level. > > Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? > Yes, > the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told. > > Ernest Hemingway: To die in the rain. Alone. > > Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. > Somebody > told us the chicken crossed the road and that was good enough. > > Barbara Walters: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be > listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story > of how it experienced a serious case of molting and went on to accomplish > its life long dream of crossing the road. > > John Lennon: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads > together, > in peace. > > Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. > > Bill Gates: I have just released eChicken2006, which will not only cross > roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents and balance your > checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. The platform > is much more stable and will never ever, ever reboot. > > Albert Einstein: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road > move > beneath the chicken? > > Al Gore: I invented the chicken! > > Colonel Sanders: Did I miss one? > > <http://www.worldstart.com/images/JFG-bullet.gif> Daily Thoughts > > Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly > deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling > through life, it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our > journey's end. > --Francois de la Rochefoucauld > > When one door closes, another door opens, but we so often look so long and > so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which > open > for us. > --Alexander Graham Bell > > Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has > rationalized his emotions. > --David Borenstein > > <http://www.worldstart.com/images/JFG-bullet.gif> Today's Cartoon > > <http://imgsrv.worldstart.com/jfg-images/cartoon431.JPG> > > Cartoon used with permission > > We always want your ORIGINAL stories-keep sending them. They can be about > kids, yourself, your pets, or anything else that's embarrassing, funny, or > just plain weird! Please submit at this link... > http://www.worldstart.com/contact/general/reader-story.htm > > <http://www.worldstart.com/images/JFG-bullet.gif> Last Laugh > > That's Amazing! > > When Mary was pregnant, her five year old, Billy, was utterly amazed and a > little bit disbelieving that his sister was growing in his mom's tummy. > > So one day when the baby was especially active, she asked Billy to place > his > tiny hands on her tummy to feel the baby kick. > > But when he did, the baby was suddenly still. > > "Oh, Billy, she must have decided to take a nap," shrugged his mother. > > "A nap"? Billy marveled. "You mean there's a bed in there too"? > > <http://www.worldstart.com/images/JFG-bullet.gif> Daily Thoughts > > )Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly > deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling > through life, it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our > journey's end. > --Francois de la Rochefoucauld > > When one door closes, another door opens, but we so often look so long and > so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which > open > for us. > --Alexander Graham Bell > > Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has > rationalized his emotions. > --David Borenstein > > Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could > only > do a little. > --Edmund Burke > The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. > --Mahatma Gandhi > Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to > all that befalls him. > --Romain Gary > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
