Thought of the Day thread

I love that saying. I have seen it somewhere before and believe it is very true.

 

Damn , time to stop feeding the wrong one. The troulbe is that I still need to choose.

 

I forget the name of the fellow who wrote this, but I thought about it and I tend to agree; "History, is a record of events which ought not to have happened."

 

I don't know if any of my fellow Rogues are familiar with the author Michael Connelly, but the Harry Bosch series used that "good canine, bad canine" theme alot. He (Bosch) is a police detective who comes from a long string of foster homes, and he too heard that "feed the right dog" saying growing up in one of the holding orphanages. When I saw Biak's post, I immediately remembered that line, of course in the series it is a dog, not a wolf, but the sentiment is identical.

 

Johnny Cash followed this creedo, he said it was part of the reason he stopped his wild ways (that and June). While I have more of an appreciation of him now, he is a legend, I wasn't much of a Cash fan when I was a kid, but my father was. After Cash died, I watched a bio on him and heard this and I was impressed when he talked about this and his determination to feed the "good wolf" - and what a struggle it sometimes was for him (and his fellow highwaymen).

And no matter how you say it, it is very true.

 

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.


H. L. Mencken

 

As well as posting here, on AHF, ww2talk and helping run Feldgrau....I post regularly on one UK based "social" forum, Digitalspy.

There, in the "general" section, there's often threads posted up asking what are our favourite things, or sounds, or experiences Being a quite....ahem..."freeform"....forum, the answers are many and various as you can expect - but I have a stock answer to what my favourite thing/experience/sound is, the same answer as Big C's ...

You'd be amazed how many people cheer at the sentiment!

 

oops!

 

I believe that the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said this. Here is his O-ton: " History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided!"

 

This one is a good one from a well known man: Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

From Jonathan Winters....

 

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. - Douglas Adams​

 

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
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