Something To Think About Archive

It’s been said that “The world’s favorite season is Spring. All things seem possible in May.”

Regarding goal setting, the great artist Michelangelo believed that “The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

According to an African Proverb: Any where a man goes, his character goes with him.

We’re constantly amazed by and increasingly disenchanted by our elected official’s capacity to behave badly. And especially now with Eric Swalwell’s sexual misconduct, okay “alleged” misconduct, although the Governor’s race is better off with him not in it. And there’s Tony Gonzales, a well-respected Congressman from Texas, also failing the morals test and having to resign. Then we have the tasteless post on Truth Social by President Trump depicted as Jesus despite his lame claim that he “thought he looked like a doctor.” What were these people thinking?

Hotelier J.W. Marriott claimed that “It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation fist class.”

Canadian author and educator Claude T. Bissell advised us to “Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.”

According to Mark Twain: “Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”

Unitarian pastor and writer Cyrus A. Bartol called “character” “a diamond that scratches every other stone.”

Writer and physician John Andrew Holmes “Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.”

The fact that Donald Trump calls the Supreme Court a “kangaroo court” and Democrats across the aisle claim that the court is Trump’s “rubber stamp” is proof that they are doing their job as the Framers intended: interpreting the Constitution separate from either the Executive or Legislative branches of government.

William F. Buckley claimed that “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people in the Boston telephone directory than the faculty of Harvard University.”

Bette Midler “The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.”

Mike Ditka “Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.”

Max Eastman “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

We wish more polls in Sacramento and Washington would channel their inner John F. Kennedy who, in 1962 said, tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are to low, and the soundest way to rase the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.”

Mystery writer Agatha Christie once noted that “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

As Babe Ruth advised us: “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

Founder of the Girl Scouts Juliette Gordon Lowe said: “To be inspired is great, but to be an inspiration is an honor.”