QOTD - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people have to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. If they took to the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (1990)

QOTD - Samuel Johnson

“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.” – Samuel Johnson

QOTD - Anonymous

“If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’re going to keep getting what you’ve been getting.” – Anonymous

QOTD - Will Rogers

“For there is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.” – Will Rogers

QOTD - Charles Kettering

“A friend of mine once said that there is no difference between theory and practice. There is one difference. Practice won’t let you forget anything or leave anything out.” – Charles F. Kettering

QOTD - Erma Bombeck

“It is fast coming to the point where I don’t want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.” – Erma Bombeck

QOTD - Mary Pettibone Poole

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” – Mary Pettibone Poole

QOTD - Henry John Temple

“What might have happened, if that which did happen, had not happened, I cannot undertake to say.” – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

QOTD - Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford

QOTD - Robert Frost

“There’s absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to be very slow. I never know when I’m wasting time.” – Robert Frost

QOTD - Charles Francis Potter

“What you read when you don’t have to, determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Charles Francis Potter

QOTD - Anonymous

“To repeat what others have said requires education; to challenge it requires brains.” –  Anonymous

QOTD - Arnold Palmer

“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” - Arnold Palmer

Easter Gladness

 May the miracle of Easter bring you peace and joy.

QOTD - Albert Einstein

“People who fail to regard the truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in matters that are great.” - Albert Einstein

QOTD - Damon Runyon

“Never blame the booster for what the sucker does.” - Damon Runyon

QOTD - Will Rogers

“Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.” - Will Rogers

QOTD - Confucious

"No matter how busy you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." - Confucius

QOTD - Alexander Woollcott

“It seems as if anything I like is either illegal or immoral or fattening.” - Alexander Woollcott

QOTD - Ogden Nash

“There has been lots of progress during my lifetime, but I’m afraid it’s been heading in the wrong direction.” - Ogden Nash, Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours, The New Yorker, 27 March 1959

QOTD - Lucille Ball

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” - Lucille Ball

QOTD - Mason Cooley

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” - Mason Cooley

QOTD - Cicely Tyson

 

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.” - Cicely Tyson

QOTD - Carol Burnett

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” - Carol Burnett

QOTD - David Bohm

“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.” - David Bohm

QOTD - Leo Buscaglia

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” - Leo Buscaglia

QOTD - Allyson Felix

“When you speak your truth, things happen.” - Allyson Felix

QOTD - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

QOTD - John Burroughs

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” - John Burroughs

QOTD - Alexander Baln

“Instinct is untaught ability.” - Alexander Baln

QOTD - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes