# Thought for the Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261 "2004-12-30T16:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/1 "2004-12-30T16:24:51Z")
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. (Henry Ford) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/2 "2004-12-30T16:28:10Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. (Henry Ford) Unfortunately, Henry Ford’s destiny was to republish _The Protocols of the Elders of Zion_ and distribute it throughout the world in a dozen languages. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/3 "2004-12-30T16:57:40Z")
Okay, how about this one? Much of the world’s work, it has been said, is done by men who don’t feel quite well. Marx is a case in point. (John Kenneth Galbraith) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/4 "2004-12-30T16:58:47Z")
“The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time, There ain’t nothing to it, any fool can do it !” ``` James Taylor ``` ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/5 "2004-12-30T17:04:04Z")
Thought for the Day: “Spike’s a good dog!” ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/6 "2004-12-30T20:57:08Z")
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time, plans like these have come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines. – Roger Waters ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/7 "2004-12-30T21:24:48Z")
A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’ ‘However,’ replied the universe, ‘The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.’ –Stephen Crane ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/8 "2004-12-31T06:22:11Z")
“Never play cards with a man named Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. And finally, whatever you do, never ever lie down with a woman who has more troubles than you do.” – Nelson Algren Wish I knew the exact wording – every site I Googled gives a slightly different version. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/9 "2004-12-31T07:09:57Z")
“Swallow all your tears, my love, and put on your new face. You can never win or lose, if you don’t run the race.” _Love My Way_, Psychedelic Furs I have no idea if the second line was borrowed or original, but I like it. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/10 "2004-12-31T07:38:02Z")
Money doesn’t necessarily make you happy, but lack of money always makes you sad. ---
**Author:** ![LtningBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@LtningBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LtningBug)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/11 "2004-12-31T07:40:07Z")
“If you wait until the last minute to do something, it only takes a minute to do.” - Unknown (I heard it first and only from a guy I went to high school with, said while we were in the process of majorly procrastinating on a big project). ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/12 "2004-12-31T09:55:03Z")
“Fuck that.” - Silver Fire ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/13 "2004-12-31T11:52:04Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > “Fuck that.” - Silver Fire You’re really famous at my house,\*\* Silver\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/14 "2004-12-31T12:09:57Z")
My friends and I quote **Silver Fire** all of the time. Such a classic! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/15 "2004-12-31T14:16:04Z")
“And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty. There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in their giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give mindfulness of virtue; they give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth.” Kahil Gibran ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Sparky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Master\_Sparky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Sparky)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/16 "2004-12-31T15:17:21Z")
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.” _–Jack Handey_ ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/17 "2004-12-31T15:39:13Z")
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.” Cullen Hightower ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/18 "2004-12-31T16:30:06Z")
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. — Catherine Aird ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/19 "2004-12-31T16:46:26Z")
“Easy to bitch, easy to whine, easy to moan, easy to cry, Easy to feel like there ain’t nothin’ in your life Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, But it’s really worth it, if you give it a try” ~Cowboy Mouth, _Easy_ ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261/20 "2004-12-31T17:38:16Z")
Life generally boils itself down to three things, what you think happened, what others think happened, and what **really** happened, when all three of these meet, right there you will find the secret of life -Buttonjockey [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-for-the-day/282261.md?page=2)