Some thoughts to ponder

[Dvm]

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."— W. C. Fields, American humorist

"Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight."— Daniel Drew, 19th century speculator

"Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.”— Mark Twain, American author, humorist

“It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.”—Will Rogers, American humorist

“The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.”— Richard Hofstadter, American historian

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits target no one else can see.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

“Everybody gets so much information all day long they lose their common sense.”— Gertrude Stein, American author

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."— Winston Churchill

“It is easier to run a revolution than a government.”— Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines

“Standing in the middle of road is very dangerous--you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.”— Dame Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister, Great Britain

“Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.”— Dame Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister, Great Britain

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”— Dame Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister, Great Britain

“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”— Dame Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister, Great Britain

“If you live like there’s no God, you’d better be right.”— Anonymous

“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”— Kenneth Ewart Boulding, British economist

“History must repeat itself as we pay so little attention to it the first time.”— Blackie Sherrod, sports writer

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."— Mark Twain, attributed

"…the United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century."— Laurence Kotlikoff, American economist

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."— P.J. O'Rourke, American humorist

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."— Winston Churchill, prime minister, Great Britain

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."— Catherine Aird, pseudonym of novelist Kinn Hamilton McIntosh

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."— W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, author

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."— Pete Seeger, American folk singer

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”— Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father

"Bull markets are born in pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die of euphoria."— Sir John Templeton, American businessman, philanthropist

"The four most dangerous words in investing are, 'It's different this time.'"— Sir John Templeton

[sjessen]

"It's not about you." - Rick Warren

[Rodfather]

"Even if you're on the right track, just stay there too long and you'll get run over". Thomas Edison

[Leslie lawncare]

"momma always says life is like a box of chocolates.... You never know what your gonna get" Forrest Gump

[fargoboy]

"you can't polish a turd"-Fargoboy