Please dash me off a letter.  Put in as many
jabs and jibes and sarcasms as you have in
stock.  Blow me a refreshing breeze.

-Mark Twain



Joy is a net of love by which you
can catch souls.

-Mother Teresa



Distracted from distraction
by distraction.

-T. S. Eliot



christopher marley

Man gave names to all the animals,
in the beginning.

-Bob Dylan



Apparently, we are both suffering
from a deplorable lack of curiosity.

-The Sound of Music



Failure is success if we learn from it.

-Malcolm Forbes



All flesh is like grass, and all
its glory like the flower of
the grass.

-1 Peter 1:24



No one ever told me that grief
felt so like fear.

-C. S. Lewis

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Decide what to be and go be it.

-The Avett Brothers, Head Full of Doubt



As soon as I hear a sound,
it always suggests a mood
to me.

-Brian Eno



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We don't need no stinking badges!

-Treasure of the Sierra Madre



ernest shepard

I've got nothing to do today
but smile.

-Paul Simon



Of all the the senses, sight must
be the most delightful.

-Helen Keller



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This train is bound for glory.

-traditional American gospel song




Surprise me.

-Bob Hope (last words, spoken to his wife when asked
where he wanted to be buried)



mark rothko

I merely took the energy
it takes to pout and wrote
some blues.

-Duke Ellington



pieter claesz


To the artist there is never anything
ugly in nature.

-Auguste Rodin



Love is an exploding cigar we
willingly smoke.

-Lynda Barry





Socialism, in general, has a record
of failure so blatant that only an
intellectual could ignore or evade it.

-Thomas Sowell



The fanatical Church of Global
Warming is a hate-filled conventicle
of intolerant zealots.

-Peter Hitchens




I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost



Reason should direct and appetite obey.

-Cicero



A handful of patience
is worth more than a
bushel of brains.

-Dutch proverb



I was born with a plastic spoon
in my mouth.

-Pete Townshend



I only go out to get me a fresh
appetite for being alone.

-Lord Byron





Most of the change we think we
see in life is due to truths being
in and out of favor.

-Robert Frost



mitch dobrowner

As soon as there is life there is danger.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson



The real battle in life is to be as
happy in God as we can be.

-John Piper



john tenniel



You will never find time
for anything.  You must
make it.

-Charles Buxton



Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in
few words.

-Ecclesiasticus 32:8