On this team, we're all united in
a common goal: to keep my job.

-Lou Holtz



I suppose half of writing is
overcoming the revulsion you
feel when you sit down to it.

-Flannery O'Connor



What I don't like about office Christmas
parties is looking for a job the next day.

-Phyllis Diller



She looked as if she had been
poured into her clothes and had
forgotten to say "when."

P. G. Wodehouse



Arise, shine, for your light
has come, and the glory of
the Lord has risen upon you.

-Isaiah 60:1



Mozart is sunshine.

-Antonin Dvorak



Designed to emulate the sleeve of an old
record album, this stamp will appear in
2013.  It commemorates Tejano music
legend, Lydia Mendoza.  Well done.



I was just thinking of a
flaming rum punch.

-Clarence Oddbody




You can't just go on being
a good egg.  You must either
hatch or go bad.

-C. S. Lewis



Another stamp for next year, designed by
Frederick, Maryland artist Tom Engeman,
features a beautiful Spicebush Swallowtail. 
The 66 cent rate covers the square shaped
cards that people love to send.  Did you
know that square envelopes require an
additional 20 cents postage?



Blue canary in the outlet by the
light switch who watches over you.

-They Might Be Giants, Birdhouse In Your Soul




And this is the testimony:
that God gave us eternal
life, and this life is in his Son.

-1 John 5:11



Nothing gives one person so much advantage
over another as to remain cool and unruffled 
under all circumstances.

-Thomas Jefferson



First you take a drink,
then the drink takes a drink,
then the drink takes you.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald



Nothing in life is so exhilarating
as to be shot at without result.

-Winston Churchill



We have the best government
that money can buy.

-Mark Twain



Little children are the symbol
of the eternal marriage between
love and duty.

-George Eliot



Beware the fury of a patient man.

-John Dryden



He reached down from
heaven and rescued me.

-Psalm 18:16




An intellectual is someone who's
mind watches itself.

-Albert Camus



Here's a peek at one of the
fine commemorative stamps
that will be appearing in 2013. 
New Year's resolution: repent
of unimaginative postage.




Courage is a kind of salvation.

-Plato



I always wanted to be somebody,
but now I realize I should have
been more specific.

-Lily Tomlin



If there were no God,
there would be no atheists.

-G. K. Chesterton



I've managed to avoid
tattoos so far.

-Mick Jagger



All of history is God's preparation
for the final table of rejoicing, the
great supper of the Lamb.

-Douglas Wilson



A difference of taste in
jokes is a great strain on
the affections.

-George Eliot



If you are really thankful, what
do you do?  You share.

-W. Clement Stone



Thanksgiving, man.  Not
a good day to be my pants.

-Kevin James



We are all geniuses up 
to the age of ten.

-Aldous Huxley



At times in my life the only place
I have been happy is when I'm
on stage.

-Bob Dylan



Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll
marry a music man.

-Elton John, Tiny Dancer
actually, bernie taupin wrote the lyrics.

mordecai ardon

Strive for peace with everyone,
and for the holiness without
which no one will see the Lord.

-Hebrews 12:14



Cats are intended to teach us
that not everything in nature
has a function.

-Garrison Keillor



People do not like to think.  If one
thinks, one must reach conclusions. 
Conclusions are not always pleasant.

-Helen Keller



Dignify and glorify common labor. 
It is at the bottom of life that we
must begin, not at the top.

-Booker T. Washington

mordecai ardon


One good thing about
music, when it hits you,
you feel no pain.

-Bob Marley



The best laid schemes o' Mice
an' Men, gang aft agley.

-Robert Burns




It's a dangerous business,
Frodo, going out your door.

-J. R. R. Tolkien



Every house is built
by someone, but the
builder of all things
is God.

-Hebrews 3:4



For well you know that it's a fool
who plays it cool by making the
world a little colder.

-Paul McCartney, Hey Jude
(have no idea what this means but it sounds very profound and is stuck in my head)



Expectation is the root of all
heartache.

-William Shakespeare



I have no plans, and no
plans to plan.

-Mario Cuomo



In politics shared hatreds are almost
always the basis of friendships.

-Alexis de Tocqueville



People who enjoy meetings should
not be in charge of anything.

-Thomas Sowell



Land really is the best art.

-Andy Warhol



A thorough knowledge of the
Bible is worth more than a
college education.

-Theodore Roosevelt



We are a democracy, and as such
do not generally elect our best people. 
How could we?  They weren't running.

-David Mamet



8Our government spends seven million
dollars every minute.

8It takes 8 1/2 minutes for light from the
sun to reach the earth.

870% of the dust in your home is from
human skin.



A great city is not to be
confounded with a
populous one.

-Aristotle