Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterword." - Vernon Law

"I started telling myself that if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to." - Anne Lamott

 "It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary, only the wise men are able to understand them." - Paulo Coelho

"Facing the press is more difficult than bathing a leper." - Mother Teresa

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." - Vernon Law

"When we confront something painful, we are left with a choice between an ugly and painful truth or a beautiful delusion. Many of us opt for the latter and it slows our progress." - Shane Parrish

"Facing the press is more difficult than bathing a leper." - Mother Teresa

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire." - Seneca

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin

"Be nice to people, eat well, get some exercise, and spend less than you make. Those four reduce about 90% of life's problems." - The Motley Fool

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." - Vernon Law

"When we confront something painful, we are left with a choice between an ugly and painful truth or a beautiful delusion. Many of us opt for the latter and it slows our progress." - Shane Parrish

"Facing the press is more difficult than bathing a leper." - Mother Teresa

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I 100% believe that if the Federal Government requires the economy to be shut down that the people responsible for making that decision should NOT be receiving a paycheck during the duration of that shutdown. I know most of the people in Congress are now millionaires but it bugs me to no end that these folks who are supposed to be representing us are still getting paid while 16 million Americans (and counting) have lost their jobs... Brit Hume's full name is Alexander Britton Hume. How come he just doesn't go by Al Hume?... The Hogwarts motto is Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus - "never tickle a sleeping dragon"... "Facing the press is more difficult than bathing a leper." - Mother Teresa. I'm sure President Trump could relate to that quote... I'm a glutton for punishment but I would love to watch a Jeopardy! showdown between CNN's Jim Acosta and Wolf Blitzer. I'd put the combined over/under for correct answers for the entire show at 5. I'd also bet that neither would qualify for Final Jeopardy because they would both be well into negative numbers...