Thought

Love may not make the world spin around, but it certainly makes a lot of people dizzy. 

Here’s to Love – the only fire for which there is no insurance.

Thanksgiving Thoughts

*An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. --Irv Kupcine Thanksgiving

*Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience - Sadi, The Gulistan

*The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts … nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. --H. W. Westermayer

*On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. --William Jennings Bryan

*Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. --WT Purkiser

*8000 calorie poem May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious and your pies take the prize, and may your Thanksgiving dinner stay off your thighs! -Unknown

Patriotism

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. 
~Abraham Lincoln

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.  They are right.  It is the American dream. 
~Archibald MacLeish

Intellectual Nourishment

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
_Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Intellectual Nourishment

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!_Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

Intellectual Nourishment

Courage is not the absence of fear--it is the determination to push past the fear to do what is right._R. Campbell

Intellectual Nourishment

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

_Hamilton Wright Mabie

Intellectual Nourishment

Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life -- for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.
_Laura Teresa Marquez