A Bit of Wisdom From the Oracle of Omaha
“The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble…We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table.” ~ Warren Buffett
A Bit of Wisdom from Churchill on Life’s Battles
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.” ~ Winston Churchill
A Bit of Wisdom from John Quincy Adams
“If you actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams
A Bit of Winston Wisdom
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” ~ Winston Churchill
A Bit of Wisdom From Zig Ziglar on Helping Others
“You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar
A Bit of Wisdom from Eisenhower on Farming from a Distance
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
A Bit of Wisdom From Emerson, Especially Poignant in our Divided Era
“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882
A Bit of New Year’s Wisdom From C.S. Lewis
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis
From Washington’s Farewell Address on Dangers of Political Parties
Washington, DC…In 1796 President George Washington saw the dangers that party politics could damage the entire system. “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power […]
A Bit of Wisdom from Old Ben on Liberty or Maybe Giving up Liberty of Others for Money
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin
A Bit of Wisdom from Poor Richard
“They who have nothing to be troubled at, will be troubled at nothing.” ~ Poor Richard (AKA, Ben Franklin)
A Bit of Wisdom From Poor Richard
“Sloth, like Rust, consumes faster than Labour wears, while the used Key is always bright.” ~ Poor Richard (AKA, Ben Franklin)
A Bit of Wisdom From Poor Richard
“One good Husband is worth two good Wives; for the scarcer things are the more they’re valued.” ~ Poor Richard
A Bit of Wisdom From Poor Richard
“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!” ― Benjamin Franklin
Washington on Hearing Both Sides
“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.” ~ George Washington
“IF” by Rudyard Kipling…Dedicated to Jay S. Hamilton & Dads Everywhere ~ By John Hamilton
Denair, CA…We originally posted this for Father’s in 2006. My father would turn 103 this year if he were here today. This poem was my father’s favorite. This one is dedicated to my Father…Jay S. Hamilton. Dad was born in November of 1916 and died in May of 1991. His life saw deep tragedy but […]
A Simple Bit of Wisdom From Sir. Winston
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Winston Churchill
A Bit of Wisdom on Discourse from Poor Richard
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ― Benjamin Franklin
Hugo Chavez on the Virtues of Socialism
“The left is back, and it’s the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.” Hugo Chavez
Churchill on the Virtues of Socialism
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
A Bit of Wisdom From Ole Ben
“Little Strokes,Fell great Oaks.” Ben Franklin
A Bit of Wisdom From Old Ben
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?” ― Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt on the Rewards of Effort
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt on Courage
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Teddy Roosevelt
A Bit of Wisdom From Old Ben
“Approve not of him who commends all you say” ~ Benjamin Franklin
A Great Post Election Day Quote, ” In the Arena” by Theodore Roosevelt
Arnold, CA…”It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who […]
A Bit of Wisdom from Poor Richard
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” Benjamin Franklin
A Bit of Wisdom from Old Ben
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” Benjamin Franklin
George Washington’s Warning on Political Parties
Philadelphia, PA…”However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very […]
A Bit of Timeless Wisdom From William James
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” William James 1842 – 1910