Thought for the day--mark twain

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Thot ya'll might enjoy: It is good to be noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler---and less trouble.

-- john leake (natlivent@pcpros.net), June 09, 2000

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He was quite the scholar of humanity !

-- Joel Rosen (Joel681@webtv.net), June 10, 2000.

I have a favorite Twain quote. I'm not sure I'm wording exactly right, but it goes "The world is full of two kinds of people, those willing to work, and those willing to let them." I love watching people work myself. Gerbil

-- Gerbil (ima_gerbil@hotmail.com), June 11, 2000.

Mark Twain was wrong. In order to teach others how to be good, you have to be good yourself!! You've heard the saying, "Children don't do what we say, they do what we do."

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), June 11, 2000.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed inoveralls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison

-- snoozy (allen@oz.net), June 11, 2000.

Before ya can taste the butter, ya gotta be willing to churn the milk! (My Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.


Never build the windmill before ya dig the well! (my Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

No matter how hard the winter -spring always comes. (my Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

Opinions are like noses--everybody has one! (my Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

No matter how well liked ya are the number of people who show up for your funeral depends entirely on the weather! (My Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

A fool & his money are invited everywhere!!!! ( My Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.


Don't count the crop till it is in the barn! (My Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

Gun control is being able to hit what ya aim at! (my Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

Strong fences make good neighbors! (my Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

We are all singing off the same song sheet! (my Dad) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.

Life is waaaaay toooo short not to live it in the country! (these are in memory of my Dad,/ Walt, who died June 1st 1991--) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), June 12, 2000.


you can lead a horse to water, but you just flat can't make him drink !!!!

-- GENE WARD (GWARD34847@AOL.COM), June 12, 2000.

Simplify, simplify, simplify. HD Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. H D Thoreau

Its better to reamin silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Dunno Maybe Mark Twain?

-- john leake (natlivent@pcpros.net), June 12, 2000.


Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead.

No sense crying over spilt milk.

They can't get your goat if your goat ain't available to get got. (Grandma Lillie)

If at first you don't succeed, read the directions. (or, alternately - to heck with it!)

-- Polly (tigger@moultrie.com), June 12, 2000.


I've lived long enough now to say that when one sets out to do wrong and hurt others it comes back to them, you get what you give. And after milking first freshners then I understood why the saying, "kick the bucket!" Must have been someone trying to milk a goat or cow! LOL

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), June 13, 2000.

"I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it!" --unknown

-- snoozy (allen@oz.net), June 13, 2000.

Giving up is not an option. --Mr. Dreyer who swims across the Great Lakes. I cannot live without books.--Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams, 1815.

-- Sandy (smd2@netzero.net), June 15, 2000.

No good deed goes unpunished. Unknown?

Seeing as how so many fools are killed on the 4th of July I think we should have two 4th of Julys. Mark Twain

-- Chris Engle (engle_c@yahoo.com), June 16, 2000.


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