Speak as if every word were
written in permanent marker.

john james audobon

If I had to choose, I would rather
have birds than airplanes.

-Charles Lindbergh



Let the one who is thirsty
come; let the one who desires
take the water of life without
price.

-Revelation 22:17



Go to sleep. 
It'll be better in the morning.

-Ruth Pastrana

tracey ann finley

It is easier to forgive
an enemy than to forgive
a friend.

-William Blake



Well, my brother says Hello.
So, hooray for speech therapy.

-Emo Philips



Opportunity does not knock;
it presents itself when you beat
down the door.

-Kyle Chandler



You never find yourself
until you face the truth.

-Pearl Bailey



If you wish to grow thinner,
diminish your dinner.

-H. S. Leigh



Whoever is wise, let him
attend to these things.

-Psalm 107:43



Humor is emotional chaos
remembered in tranquility.

-James Thurber



Everything happens to everybody
sooner or later if there is time
enough.

-George Bernard Shaw



Lord, keep me from being a
boring grown-up.

-Jon Saunders




A good photograph is knowing
where to stand.

-Ansel Adams



Basically my wife was immature. 
I'd be at home in the bath and she'd
come in and sink my boats.

-Woody Allen



Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned,
the entire point of being an adult.

-Fran Leibowitz



I have no greater joy than
to hear that my children are
walking in the truth.

3 John 4



Democracy is the art and science 
of running the circus from the
monkey cage.

-H. L. Mencken



When I was a boy of fourteen my father
was so ignorant I could hardly stand to
have the old man around.  But when I got
to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how
much the old man had learned in seven years.

-Mark Twain



Making dreams and nightmares
come true.

-Travis Pastrana, Nitro Circus



Ah, summer, what power you have
to make us suffer and like it.

-Russell Baker



Better three hours too soon than
a minute too late.

-William Shakespeare



No great discovery was ever made
without a bold guess.

-Isaac Newton



Christianity is the story of how the rightful
king has landed, you might say landed in
disguise, and is calling us all to take part in
a great campaign of sabotage.

-C. S. Lewis



Find something you're passionate
about and stay tremendously
interested in it.

-Julia Child



Never judge a book by its movie.

-J. W. Eagan



A bank is a place that will lend
you money if you can prove you
don't need it.

-Bob Hope



The heart cannot exult in
what the mind rejects.

-Stephen Meyer



When you deal with a five year
old you begin to sound like a
five year old.

-Jean Kerr



Being rich is not about how many homes
you own.  It's the freedom to pick up any
book you want without looking at the price
and wondering whether you can afford it.

-John Waters



rembrandt van rijn

A dark hour makes Jesus bright.

-Robert Murray McCheyne



No matter who you are or
what you plan to do, learn
to type!

-Liz Smith



Government is not the solution,
it's the problem.

-Ronald Reagan



What dreadful hot weather we have. 
It keeps me in a continual state of
inelegance.

-Jane Austen



Nothing is impossible for the man
who doesn't have to do it himself.

-A. H. Weiler



The story of life is quicker than
the blink of an eye.

-Jimi Hendrix



I am still learning.

-Michelangelo



I have given them your word
and the world has hated them,
for they are not of the world
any more than I am of the world.

-Jesus speaking to the Father (in John 17:14)



All truth is not to be
told at all times.

-Samuel Butler

henri rousseau 

"You would not have called to me
unless I had been calling to you,"
said the Lion.

-C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia






Art must take reality by surprise.

-Francoise Sagan

tracey ann finley

A poem begins in delight
and ends in wisdom.

-Robert Frost 



Beauty varies with the time of life.

-Aristotle



If we study God's word, if we know and
believe and live in terms of the sufficiency
of Scripture, we will not be buffaloed by
the experts.

-Douglas Wilson



If it weren't for baseball,
many kids wouldn't know
what a millionaire looked like.

-Phyllis Diller



A minute's success pays
the failure of years.

-Robert Browning



A man does not know what he is saying
until he knows what he is not saying.

-G. K. Chesterton



For every action there is an equal
and opposite government program.

-Bob Wells

vincent van gogh

Some painters transform the sun into a
yellow spot; others transform a yellow
spot into the sun.

-Pablo Picasso



Never trust a computer you
can't throw out a window.

-Steve Wozniak