Category Archives: The Thought for the Day
Selections from Gaylon’s personal quotebook! Plus exciting commentary from Gaylon
The Thought for the Day – Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau, Walden While not our … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Abraham Lincoln
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here… – Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, 11/19/1863 Today is the 154th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, one of our species most memorable speeches. Abraham Lincoln gave it at … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Lawrence Sanders
In the city, people paid to hear other people sing and watch other people feel. Passion has become a spectator sport supported by emotional cripples. Love and suffering were knacks possessed by the talented paid to display their gifts. – … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – King David
As one thinketh in is heart, so is he. – King David King David is historically represented as the second king of Israel and Judah. For centuries there was little evidence outside the Bible that David existed, though the 1990’s … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Nicholas Monsarrat
The man who finds the smell is the one who sniffs. – Nicholas Monsarrat, Smith and Jones Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-79) was a British naval officer and writer. Though a pacifist, he served Britain honorably in the Navy, attaining the rank … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Benjamin Franklin
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, if he first forms a good plan, and makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. – Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-92), was an English poet. He replaced William Wordsworth as poet laureate of England – though he wasn’t the first choice … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Gore Vidal
Atossa was never more splendid than when she was improvising towards some great end. – Gore Vidal, Creation Atossa (550 BC-475 BC) was the wife of King Darius the Great of Persia. She was strong-willed, persistent, patient and cunning traits … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Keats
A proverb is no proverb to you until your life has illustrated it. – John Keats John Keats was an English poet who flourished in the early 19th century. Like some poets, Keats was not particularly well received while living, … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet, essayist and lecturer. He was ordained as a … Continue reading