Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Chris Ryser]

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

[m0002a]

Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.

Steven Wright

[Chris Ryser]

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

[m0002a]

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

Steven Wright

[Chris Ryser]

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Horace

[Chris Ryser]

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

[m0002a]

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

Steven Wright

[Chris Ryser]

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

Source Unknown

[Chris Ryser]

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Anatole France

[m0002a]

I recently changed my name to Resident Occupant. The local post office would like to speak with me but they're not sure where I live. Last week they used a barge to deliver my mail.

Steven Wright

[Chris Ryser]

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H. L. Mencken

[m0002a]

One day I got on the usual bus, and when I stepped in, I saw the most gorgeous blond Chinese girl... I sat beside her. I said, "Hi," and she said, "Hi," and then I said, "Nice day, isn't it?," and she said, "I saw my analyst today and he says I have a problem." So I asked, "What's the problem?" She replied, "I can't tell you. I don't even know you..." I said, "Well sometimes it's good to tell your problems to a perfect stranger on a bus." So she said, "Well, my analyst said I'm a nymphomaniac and I only like Jewish cowboys... By the way, my name is Denise." I said, "Hello, Denise. My name is Bucky Goldstein."

Steven Wright

[Chris Ryser]

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

Robert Cialdini

[Chris Ryser]

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

H. L. Mencken

[Chris Ryser]

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Eric Hoffer

[Chris Ryser]

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

Harry Millner

[Chris Ryser]

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner

[Chris Ryser]

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

[Chris Ryser]

A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Jean Giraudoux, The Enchanted, 1933

[Chris Ryser]

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Source Unknown

[Chris Ryser]

We should not only master questions,but also act upon them,and act definitely.

Woodrow Wilson

[Chris Ryser]

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Waitley

[Chris Ryser]

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

[Chris Ryser]

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Alexander Herzen

[Chris Ryser]

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

Michel de Montaigne