Category Archives: The Thought for the Day
Selections from Gaylon’s personal quotebook! Plus exciting commentary from Gaylon
The Thought for the Day – An Old Saying
Fortune favors the brave. – An old saying. Today is the 14th anniversary of China sending its first astronaut into space. Ten years later, in 2013, China was able to send an unmanned rover to the moon. China is the … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Schopenhauer
What is modesty but hypocritical humility…by means of which, in a world swelling with envy, a man seeks to obtain pardon for excellences and merits from those who have none?…No doubt when modesty was made a virtue it was a … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Deng Ming-Dao
Muddy water becomes clear if allowed to stand undisturbed. – Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao Deng Ming-Dao is an American writer, artist and although he might well disdain the term, philosopher. He has written many books on the Chinese spiritual discipline … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Napoleon
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you. – Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – A Quote From Dragnet
{We thank you for the opportunity to gather} for one of life’s great prizes – the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – From Dragnet Dragnet was an American radio and television show that ran intermittently in various … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Virgil
They can because they think they can. – Virgil Virgil was a Roman poet who lived in the first century before Christ. Specific biographical information is rare. It is believed he was from what is now northern Italy and that … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – John Marshall
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. – John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, 1801-1835 John Marshall was the fourth chief justice of the United States. Prior to this … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Abraham Lincoln
Oh, governor, I don’t matter. I am done for anyway. I was chosen to do a certain work, and I must do it, and then go. – Abraham Lincoln Today’s Thought was actually taken from Gore Vidal’s historical novel Lincoln … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – James Meredith
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind. – James Meredith James Meredith was the first black to attend the University of Mississippi. As noted … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Delbert Burkett
I wish I could’ve been something they could’ve been. -Delbert Burkett Delbert Burkett is a convicted felon currently serving a 40-year sentence in a geriatric prison facility in Texas. Today’s Thought came as he was being interviewed for a documentary … Continue reading