Sunday 6.0

"Closed on Sundays...see me tomorrow morning.  The early birds gets the worms words."
- Arthur Unknows

Double French Word

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein

“Meeting one’s Basic Needs is more important than Imagination.”

How far do you want to take this Albert… Geesh - what an Einstein.

- Arthur Unknows

My Butler Langston

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
- Langston Hughes

“What a thoughtful and erudite quote… and most of all – what a great name for a butler.”

- Arthur Unknows

A Pole - Pin and Needle

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
- William Arthur Ward

“So without humor you’ll fall off the tightrope of life.  Yikes.  What would the metaphor have been had he thought of pins and needles.  The mental picture of that in my head is not pretty”

- Arthur Unknows

Hear What I Want

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
- Benjamin Franklin

True – however I sense fellow Americans read the previous quote as...

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness.  You’re entitled to it.”

- Arthur Unknows

You Would Even Say It Glows

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
- W. C. Fields

“A wino’s wino – W.C. Fields would put Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer to shame.”

- Arthur Unknows

Child Toys - Noise

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
- Bil Keane

"...So is a Yo-Yo, albeit with strings attached."
- Arthur Unknows

"Closed on Sundays...see me tomorrow morning.  The early birds get the worms words."
- Arthur Unknows

Bi-Oxymoron

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
- Alexander Pope

“Alexander Pope was neither a leader nor a Pope; either by namesake ‘Alexander’ or by conclave election – he was a poet.”

- Arthur Unknows

Two Truths in One

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Penitence is grand – King Jr.  What an elegant way to tell the individual to act and get off their rump.”

- Arthur Unknows

On Uncle Sam's Dea-L

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  (1835-1941)

“Oliver let me introduce you to the modern today’s American generation… their brain willfully cannot stretch, it sits on the couch connected virtually to the entitlement mentality; and when that fleeting thought of accountability flickers in the mind – the brain pulls its dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and is on the permanent disabled list of team Uncle Sam.”

- Arthur Unknows

Insights To Mann

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
- Horace Mann

“Science differs and says that at about 18-22 years of age man reaches their fullest height; however, this could be the reason there are so many short people in the world.”

- Arthur Unknows

Speak It True James

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”
- James Dean

“When you let the cat out of the bag – don’t push all-in with 9 lives.”

- Arthur Unknows

Not-So, Thoreau

“Things do not change; we change.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“Apparently the definition of ‘noun’ has changed.  Thank you Henry David (Not-so) Thoreau.”

- Arthur Unknows

"Closed on Sundays...see me tomorrow morning.  The early birds get the worms words."
- Arthur Unknows

”Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
- Thomas A. Edison

“Ahem… *cough* GOVERNMENT *cough* your looking obese – its time to fast.”
- Arthur Unknows

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
- Steve Jobs

“He put a pretty good ding in my wallet – not that it’s the universe.”
- Arthur Unknows

“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
- Erma Bombeck

“Especially during the 1700’s.”
- Arthur Unknows

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
- George Meredith

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
- Arthur Unknows

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
- Vincent Van Gogh

“Wait… What!?!   From the guy who slashed off a portion of his ear!”
- Arthur Unknows

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
- Mark Twain

“Age is a measurement of time between the combination of your mind and matter existing together; and if you don’t matter – it don’t mind.”
- Arthur Unknows

"Closed on Sundays...see me tomorrow morning.  The early birds get the worms words."
- Arthur Unknows

"Men are much better than their ordinary life allows them to be."
- J. B. Priestley

I sense a belief in fate with the above statement...

"Fate can be turned on its head after a bottle of JD."
- Arthur Unknows

"Failure is not the crime - low aim is."
- John Wooden

"Good thing he wasn't in law enforcement because his understanding of law is wrong, just wrong."
- Arthur Unknows

"No one rises to low expectations."
- Les Brown

"The government does not want us to raze; to lowered expectations."
- Arthur Unknows

"Resisting adversity causes some men to break, others to break records."
- Author Unknown

"Resisting adversity causes some men to brake..."
 - Arthur Unknows

"There's only one endeavor in which you can start at the top, and that's digging a hole."
- Author Unknown

"That statement is entirely not true.  For example you can start at the top of an ice cream cone, the top of a list, etc.... (besides who said holes are vertical... when I was a kid we dug sideways holes in the sand piles - yeah we called them caves, but it qualified as a hole.)"
- Arthur Unknows

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point for all achievement."
- W Clement Stone

"Definiteness for all starting point is the purpose of achievement."
- Arthur Unknows

"Closed on Sundays...see me tomorrow morning.  The early birds get the worms words."
- Arthur Unknows

"Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you."
- Maori Proverb

"Turn your face to the moon, and the gas will be in front of you."
- Arthur Unknows