Thursday, June 30, 2011

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Look what just became available yesterday at your
post office.  Stop buying generic postage stamps at
the grocery checkout, and give the postal clerk a
pleasant surprise. And while you're at it, quit using
white envelopes. C'mon people, wake up your mail!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011



What we hope ever to do
with ease we must learn
first to do with diligence.

-Samuel Johnson

Tuesday, June 28, 2011



Let us make a special effort to stop
communicating with each other, so
we can have some conversation.

-Judith Martin

Monday, June 27, 2011



There are worse things in life than
death.  Have you ever spent an
evening with an insurance salesman?

-Woody Allen

Sunday, June 26, 2011



No eye has seen, no ear has
heard, no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for
those who love him.

-1 Corinthians 2:9

Saturday, June 25, 2011



Show me someone without an ego,
and I'll show you a loser.

-Donald Trump

Friday, June 24, 2011

Thursday, June 23, 2011



Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

-Soren Kierkegaard

Wednesday, June 22, 2011


Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know
well enough to borrow from, but not well
enough to lend to.

-Ambrose Bierce

Tuesday, June 21, 2011



People everywhere confuse what
they read in newspapers with news.

-A. J. Leibling

Monday, June 20, 2011



Happiness lies in the joy
of achievement and the
thrill of creative effort.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sunday, June 19, 2011

henri matisse

You have made known to me the paths
of life; you will make me full of gladness
with your presence.

-Acts 2:28

Saturday, June 18, 2011



To invent, you need a good
imagination and a pile of junk.

-Thomas Edison

Friday, June 17, 2011


dear fork,
i understand that we haven't
spoken since i ran away with
dish, but i thought you should
know that you have a son.  his
name is spork.  he has your hair.
sincerely,
spoon

-found on etsy

Thursday, June 16, 2011



Government is the great
fiction through which
everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of
everybody else.

-Frederic Bastiat

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

margareta kaukonen
I've got fiery fingers
and I've got fiery hands,
and when I get up into heaven
gonna join in that fiery band.

-Blind Gary Davis, I Am The Light of This World

Tuesday, June 14, 2011



You don't get anything clean without
getting something else dirty.

-Cecil Baxter

Monday, June 13, 2011



Every man is guilty of all the good
he didn't do.

-Voltaire

Sunday, June 12, 2011

georges seurat

Make every effort to supplement
your faith with virtue, and virtue
with knowledge.

-2 Peter 1:5

Saturday, June 11, 2011



Never despair, but if you do,
work on in despair.

-Edmund Burke

Friday, June 10, 2011



He who asks is a fool for five
minutes; he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.

-Chinese proverb

Thursday, June 09, 2011



You cannot be mad at someone
who makes you laugh.

-Jay Leno

Wednesday, June 08, 2011





When ideas fail, words
come in very handy.

-Goethe

Tuesday, June 07, 2011



What makes the elephant charge his tusk,
in the misty mist and the dusky dusk?
What makes the muskrat guard his musk?
Courage.

-Cowardly Lion

Monday, June 06, 2011



People will buy anything that
is one to a customer.

-Sinclair Lewis

Sunday, June 05, 2011



The work of preaching is the highest and
greatest and the most glorious calling to
which anyone can ever be called.  The most
urgent need in the Christian Church today is
true preaching; and as it is the greatest and
most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously
the greatest need of the world also.

-D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones 

Saturday, June 04, 2011



The weakest ink is stronger than
the best memory.

-John Blytheway

Friday, June 03, 2011



You cannot slander human nature;
it is worse than words can paint it.

-Charles Spurgeon

Thursday, June 02, 2011



There is no reciprocity.  Men love
women, women love children, and
children love hamsters.

-Alice Thomas Ellis

Wednesday, June 01, 2011



No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.

-Charles M. Schulz