Wisdom To Start The Day ...........................

[Chris Ryser]

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

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[Chris Ryser]

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Thomas Fuller

[Chris Ryser]

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

J. Bartlett Brebner

[Chris Ryser]

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

[Chris Ryser]

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman

[Chris Ryser]

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

James Barrie

[Chris Ryser]

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Leonardo DaVinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

[Chris Ryser]

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Chris Ryser]

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Alan Alda

[Chris Ryser]

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

W. R. Whitney

[Chris Ryser]

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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[Chris Ryser]

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Robert Francis Kennedy

[Chris Ryser]

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, January 14, 1772

[Chris Ryser]

After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor.
The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.

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[Chris Ryser]

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Samuel Johnson

[Chris Ryser]

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Publilius Syrus

[Chris Ryser]

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

[Chris Ryser]

More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.

Proverb

[Chris Ryser]

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

[Chris Ryser]

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Sir Henry Wotton

[Chris Ryser]

Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

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[Chris Ryser]

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Erma Bombeck

[Chris Ryser]

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

W. H. Auden

[Chris Ryser]

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Fannie Flagg

[Chris Ryser]

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Lou Gerstner