Something To Think About Archive

As Woody Allen once observed, “The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.”

English Poet Samuel Coleridge said: “Silence does not always mark wisdom.”

Writer Milan Kundera “Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo.”

Tonight’s Republican Presidential hopefuls should heed the advice of Special Consultant to Harry Truman Albert Carr: “To be a winner, a man must play to win. This does not mean that he must be cruel, harsh or treacherous. On the contrary,” wrote Carr “the better his reputation for integrity, honesty and decency, the better his chances of victory in the long run.”

If you don’t succeed, try, try again. Especially if it’s to buy the votes of more than 800,000 student loan debtors. $39 billion that’s the amount of federal student debt the Biden administration will wipe out for those on income-driven repayment plans who have made 20 or 25 years of payments. The one-time adjustment will give borrowers credit retroactively for months that weren’t counted. This is separate from the $430 billion student-loan forgiveness plan the Supreme Court struck down last month but, in all likelihood, just as unconstitutional.

Coach Dean Smith says, “There is a point in every contest where sitting on the sidelines is not an option.”

Robert E. Lee said: “Do your duty in all things… You cannot do more, you should never do less.”

Lord Chesterfield advised us to “Treat your learning like a watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours but give the time when you are asked.”

Novelist George Orwell wrote: “The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”

Novelist Bernard Malamud believed that “Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.”

First, Joe Biden said that he “Never discussed” Hunter’s business with him. Then he said he was “never in business” with Hunter. Now, after Hunter’s former business partner testified before Congress that Joe Biden was in fact on calls with Hunter and his overseas “partners”, Biden’s Democrat defenders are labeling those conversations as “innocuous.” As Joe would say: “c’mon man!”

Goethe said: “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of.”

Admiral Halsey once observed that “All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them.”

Lyricist Billy Rose advised us to “Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing.”

Novelist and editor E.W. Howe once noted that “The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent.”

Seneca said: “If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires.”

Whether or not you follow (or even care about) the PGA-LIV Golf split and proposed merger, which is under scrutiny by Congress and the DOJ, golf coach Butch Harmon makes a great point. “And any time you get the government involved, they can screw up anything; says Harmon. And now they’re going to tell golf how to be run. … come on. Please take care of the budget; don’t worry about ***** golf.” This is reminiscent of John Kerry’s Senate hearings years ago on why a Patriots game was blacked out in Boston. Don’t they have something better to do in Washington?

“The secret between winning and losing,” according to Walt Disney “is frequently not quitting.”

A Zen Proverb tells us to “Sit, walk, or run, but don’t wobble.”

It’s been said that “Thrift is a wonderful virtue – especially in your ancestors.”