Random Thoughts

Ever notice how you can describe curent events in your life with just a passing thought?  Or, how a passing thought sums up everything so perfectly that you wonder why you didn’t come up with it in the first place?

Here are some that have stuck with me in no particular order.  I’ll bring them out and dust them off every once in a while in future postings….

 

Madness takes its toll.  Please have exact change.

 

It takes a lot of talent to get a month behind in just a day.

 

Build a better mouse trap, get a smarter mouse.

 

Time wounds all heals.

 

Life is nothing like the brochure.

 

What’s a nice girl like me doing in a place like this?

 

All work and no play makes a housewife.

 

It’s the good girls who keep diaries.  The bad girls never have time.

 

The beaten path is safest but the traffic is terrible.

 

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

 

A woman is like a tea bag – You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

 

I child proof my home and they still get in.

 

When life hands you lemons reach for the tequila.

 

Normal around here is just a setting on the dryer.

 

What if the hokey-pokey is what it’s all about?

 

Like most endeavors life is seriously over advertised and under funded.

 

Dull women have immaculate homes.

 

You can’t teach an old dog algebra.

 

Does oversleeping count as overachieving?

 

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work  –  Thomas Edison

 

The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.

 

Question the answers.

 

Authority always wins – fight anyway.

 

How do you translate ‘huh’?

 

If you are lucky enough to be at the beach you are lucky enough.

 

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

 

Wake up and smell the chaos.

 

Amateurs wait for inspiration.  The rest of us get up and go to work.

 

Do something big while there is still time to put it in your autobiography.

 

Live fearlessly.  Eat pasta.

 

Do this.  Do that.  Don’t do this.  Don’t do that.  Blah, blah, blah.

 

Your life will go according to plan about once a year.  Relish the moment.

 

Are you really rich or do you just have money?

 

Right here.   Right  now.  Pro and Con list be damned.

 

If at first you don’t succeed…welcome to the club!

 

Learn to be still.

 

If you can’t be a good example, be a horrible warning.

 

 

 

There’s no crying in baseball! -  A League of their own

 

All glory comes from daring to begin.

 

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

 

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

 

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.  That will be the beginning.

 

Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

 

Courage doesn’t always roar.  Courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

 

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

 

The future is not a gift; it is an achievement.

 

Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.

 

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils

 

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

 

It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.

 

It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to flip ‘em the bird.

 

Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.

 

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

 

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

 

How Many Roads Must a Man Walk down before He Admits He’s lost?

 

Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.  (first blog, July 17, 2008_

 

He who laughs last didn’t get it.

 

The road to success is always under construction.

 

Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?

 

Failure is not an option — it comes bundled with Windows.

 

Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”

 

Press any key except… no, No, NO, NOT THAT ONE!

 

If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment.

 

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

 

If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done…

 

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

 

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.

 

Strangers have the best candy

 

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. – Wayne Gretzky

 

“Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got”. – Garth Brooks

 

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music”. – George Carlin

 

“Run for office? No. I’ve slept with too many women, I’ve done too many drugs, and I’ve been to too many parties.”- George Clooney

 

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues. –Elizabeth Taylor

 

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. –Al Capone

 

If we weren’t all crazy we would all go insane.
- Jimmy Buffett, Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes.

 

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

 

I’m a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I’m perfect.

 

ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!

 

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

 

Reality is a nice place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

 

Don’t question authority.  They don’t know either.

 

Do you have the patience to do nothing?

 

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

 

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

 

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

 

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

 

Life may not be the party we hoped for but while we’re here we should dance.

 

We can dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I am here to get you back on schedule. –Darth Vader

 

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

 

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it is also the first to be replaced.

 

All good work is done in defiance of management.

 

There is no such thing as group originality or group creativity.

 

If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.

 

But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad, you’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

 

Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.

  

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

 

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble. – Al Capone

 

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere – Marilyn Monroe

 

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.

 

There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out. -
Mae West

 

If some people said what they thought, they’d be speechless.

 

Be the author of your life.

 

I think, therefore I am confused.

 

Sleep is for the weak

 

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.