Thought for the day...

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  1. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 16 years ago

    An ignoramus is someone who doesn't know something that you learnt yesterday.

    1. secondsamuel profile image61
      secondsamuelposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I can't remember what I lurnt yesterdee. neutral

    2. docbenduke profile image59
      docbendukeposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      He is also that knows nothing but claims he knows something..

      1. spryte profile image74
        spryteposted 15 years agoin reply to this

        Actually...the ironic part of this quote is that the day before yesterday it was the figurative "you" that was the ignoramus.

        1. Misha profile image63
          Mishaposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” tongue

  2. Misha profile image63
    Mishaposted 16 years ago

    Well, the biggest problem about this is that tomorrow you might as well learn something that makes your yesterday's knowledge irrelevant... And your opponent right tongue

    1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      LOL wink that was well stated!

  3. The Indexer profile image81
    The Indexerposted 16 years ago

    That's a bit like the undeniable truth that anyone who drives slower than you is an idiot and anyone who drives faster is a maniac!

    1. Misha profile image63
      Mishaposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      Not for me, though - I got over this long ago tongue

      1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
        Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

        And anyone who drives beside you always at the same speed is a stalker?

  4. About-The-Home profile image59
    About-The-Homeposted 16 years ago

    Is that because you have learned to drive faster than anyone else?

    1. Misha profile image63
      Mishaposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      It still would not eradicate idiots. In fact, it would turn every other person on the road into an idiot big_smile

      As The Indexer, I tend to think it has nothing to do with the actual speed you drive smile It has to do with the mindset...

  5. The Indexer profile image81
    The Indexerposted 16 years ago

    I stick to the speed limits and count how many cars catch me up!

    1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I only go 55 on surface streets... tis the only way to keep the engine from cutting off smile

  6. The Indexer profile image81
    The Indexerposted 16 years ago

    I just wonder if people might have missed the tongue planted firmly in cheek when I made my original remark?

    !!!

    1. Misha profile image63
      Mishaposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      Every joke has some truth in it big_smile  Actually I think your observation is absolutely true for quite a few drivers - and quite a few people in general for that matter. At least it was a truth about me some time ago smile

  7. ClodaxXIII profile image58
    ClodaxXIIIposted 16 years ago

    nope, we saw it!!!!!!!
    what is up!
    need people to talk to me,
    TALK TO ME

  8. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 16 years ago

    "A date is where a man or woman agrees to see you in an intimate setting. It is not a date if police or a sedative is involved."

    1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      A date is an interview, the resume is the line of questioning. To get the job you just have to be quick to answer the questions the way "she" needs you to answer them.

      1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
        Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

        o.k. that sounded naughty but wasn't intended to be wink

  9. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 16 years ago

    "I can't tolerate intolerance."

  10. The Indexer profile image81
    The Indexerposted 16 years ago

    "Moderation in all things, including moderation"

  11. topstuff profile image60
    topstuffposted 16 years ago

    What was done that must not be done.What i didn'nt that must be done.

  12. Inspirepub profile image71
    Inspirepubposted 16 years ago

    I would not join any club that would have me as a member ...

    Groucho

  13. funride profile image68
    funrideposted 16 years ago

    "Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first."

  14. Inspirepub profile image71
    Inspirepubposted 16 years ago

    Nothing would ever be done, if one was first required to overcome every possible objection to it.

  15. profile image0
    Hovalisposted 16 years ago

    "We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
    Oscar Wilde

    You can always rely on Oscar Wilde for just the right quote with that edge of sarcasm. wink

    1. quicksand profile image81
      quicksandposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Oscar Wilde was in a pretty comfortable position from which he could say anything he wanted and "get away with it." He is even supposed to have said, or is credited to have stated that people blame the circumstances and not themselves ... Well, just a remark. smile

  16. Misha profile image63
    Mishaposted 16 years ago

    If you don't drink and you don't smoke you are healthy when you croak big_smile

    Translated from Russian folklore joke Misha (c) 2008

    1. Angela Harris profile image66
      Angela Harrisposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      This one is priceless. I'm adding it to my list of favorite sayings.

  17. topstuff profile image60
    topstuffposted 16 years ago

    Look before you leap.

    1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      "Leap before you think" (I think that was by Jerrico Usher)

  18. jimmythejock profile image83
    jimmythejockposted 16 years ago

    Give a man a fish, and he will eat for that day, give a man the tools to fish and he will feed himself and his family forever, what if he lives in the desert?

    1. Kenny Wordsmith profile image72
      Kenny Wordsmithposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      Good question, LOL!
      And now my thought for the day:

      Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
      - Peter De Vries

    2. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      same scenario only his tools will be saran wrap and a sand pit, the fish becomes a plant possibly a cactus and the "eat" part becomes water.

    3. quicksand profile image81
      quicksandposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      He'll walk to the nearest oasis. You can't keep a good fisherman down!

  19. ClodaxXIII profile image58
    ClodaxXIIIposted 16 years ago

    too late

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  20. ClodaxXIII profile image58
    ClodaxXIIIposted 16 years ago

    OOPS WRONG POST!

  21. kellyfilmgirl profile image60
    kellyfilmgirlposted 16 years ago

    "80% of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

    1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Life is 10% action and 90% how you react to it (something like that)

  22. jimmythejock profile image83
    jimmythejockposted 16 years ago

    Standing at an elephants rear end when it lets one go, is said to be unlucky, I wonder why?

    1. kellyfilmgirl profile image60
      kellyfilmgirlposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      LMAO!

      I'd imagine it's doubly unlucky if you happen to be standing downwind.

  23. Patty Inglish, MS profile image89
    Patty Inglish, MSposted 16 years ago

    Hasty deduction like ancient egg. Look good from outside. - Charlie Chan

  24. waynet profile image68
    waynetposted 16 years ago

    The one who has the knowledge can change their life for the better or worse depending on whether the knowledge is relevant...

  25. Stacie Naczelnik profile image69
    Stacie Naczelnikposted 16 years ago

    "You can't count your eggs if the chicken is already dead."  --Stacie Naczelnik

  26. Inspirepub profile image71
    Inspirepubposted 16 years ago

    The man who first discovered how to get milk out of a cow .... what was he DOING?!?

    Jenny

    1. Thom Carnes profile image60
      Thom Carnesposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      That's the best one yet, Jenny!

    2. aidenofthetower profile image66
      aidenofthetowerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Oh my gosh...that has to be one of those rare times when I can type LOL and it is true.

  27. Inspirepub profile image71
    Inspirepubposted 16 years ago

    I live to please ...

    Jenny

  28. profile image0
    daflaposted 16 years ago

    Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
    Norman Ralph Augustine

  29. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 16 years ago

    Blunt knives are pointless.

  30. Uninvited Writer profile image78
    Uninvited Writerposted 16 years ago

    She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B... Dorothy Parker

  31. profile image0
    Hovalisposted 16 years ago

    Fall seven times, stand up eight.
    - Japanese Proverb

    1. quicksand profile image81
      quicksandposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      after seven falls, it is inevitable you would fall the eighth time too ... by sheer habit, or you could call it a conditioned reflex !!!

      1. profile image0
        Hovalisposted 15 years agoin reply to this

        I thought it took 21 days to form a habit. ;-)

        1. quicksand profile image81
          quicksandposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          LOL! I was counting the number of events!

  32. Inspirepub profile image71
    Inspirepubposted 16 years ago

    If'n da Good Lawd had meant for people to be running around nekkid, they'a bin born dat way ...

  33. ripplemaker profile image76
    ripplemakerposted 16 years ago

    "If you want to see a rainbow, you got to put up with the rain."

    It's hot here...i'm wishing for rain and rain and rainbows... smile

  34. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 15 years ago

    "Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." - Dame Edna Everage

  35. Eric Graudins profile image61
    Eric Graudinsposted 15 years ago

    Here's 2 of my favourites:

    "Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense"
    ~ Gertrude Stein, 1874 - 1946
    (Wonder what she'd say today ! ! ! - EG)

    A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove ... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
    ~  Forest Witcraft

    1. Zsuzsy Bee profile image86
      Zsuzsy Beeposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I love the second one Eric. That is my sentiment exactly.
      Here is my contribution: Oscar Wilde said "Experience is the name eveyone gives to his mistakes".
      zs

    2. ripplemaker profile image76
      ripplemakerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Hey Eric, I love the second quote too.  I included it in my inspirational quotes for teachers big_smile  Amen to that.

  36. Inspirepub profile image71
    Inspirepubposted 15 years ago

    If you are going to learn from experience, at least make sure it is someone else's experience.

    Good decisions come from good judgement.
    Good judgement comes from experience.
    Experience comes from bad decisions.

    Jenny

  37. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 15 years ago

    "The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to ones own self, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else."

    1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      That would be funny if it weren't happening to me? or that is funny unless it's happening to me..

    2. aidenofthetower profile image66
      aidenofthetowerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Shown every time we laugh at something bad that happens to something else. If we took a moment to think of it happening to us we would find we would be terrified. Of course...it is possible that the same people we laughed at would laugh at us!

  38. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 15 years ago

    "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!" - Randy Pausch

  39. profile image0
    Ananta65posted 15 years ago

    Rita Mae Brown:
    Writers will happen in the best of families.

  40. darkside profile image66
    darksideposted 15 years ago

    "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."

  41. oxymoron profile image58
    oxymoronposted 15 years ago

    Nice all smile

  42. Lifebydesign profile image64
    Lifebydesignposted 15 years ago

    "Erotic is using a feather while kinky is using the whole chicken"

  43. blogdigz profile image57
    blogdigzposted 15 years ago

    The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

    - John D. Rockefeller III

    1. Jerrico Usher profile image56
      Jerrico Usherposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      nice.

  44. Karen LaVelle profile image60
    Karen LaVelleposted 15 years ago

    It is a "sin" not to "sin"!    =o)

  45. terenceyap07 profile image61
    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    Life is short; live well and be happy!

    *smiles*

  46. terenceyap07 profile image61
    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    Tomorrow will be a better day!

    *smiles*

  47. terenceyap07 profile image61
    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    What role do you choose to play in your destiny:

    victim, spectator, or participant?

    *smiles*

  48. terenceyap07 profile image61
    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    You can either be your best friend or your worst enemy, depending on how you choose to think.

    Choose well.

    *smiles*

  49. ripplemaker profile image76
    ripplemakerposted 15 years ago

    “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

    --Richard Bach

  50. jyuva profile image58
    jyuvaposted 15 years ago

    Immature love says "I Love You because I need You."
    Mature love says "I need you because I Love You".

 
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