Thoughtful Thursday

"If someone tells you he is going to make 'a realistic decision,' you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
- Mary McCarthy

"All of our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last."
- Marcel Proust

"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."
- Samuel Coleridge

"To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else."
- Jean de La Bruyere

"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
- Blaise Pascal

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers."
- John Stuart Mill