Show perfect courtesy toward

all people.

*

-Titus 3:2

photo by damien

Sisters are different

flowers from the same

garden.

*

Happy 17th and 19th birthdays to my beautiful daughters

Kyrie and Chalice. Chalice turned yesterday, and Kyrie

turns tomorrow.

If I knew I was going to live this long,

I'd have taken better care of myself.

*

-Mickey Mantle

As long as there are

postmen, life will have

zest.

*

-William James

illustration by peter max

I am not afraid of storms, for I

am learning how to sail my ship.

*

-Louisa May Alcott

photograph by carina romano

Life's a voyage that's

homeward bound.

*

-Herman Melville

Marriage is an adventure,

like going to war.

*

-G. K. Chesterton

Go to the edge of the cliff

and jump off. Build your

wings on the way down.

*

-Ray Bradbury

photo by annie huntington

I will not set before my eyes

anything that is worthless.

*

-Psalm 101:3

Like jewels in a crown,

the precious stones glittered in

the queen's round metal hat.

*

-Jack Handey

Thank goodness I was never
sent to school. It would
have rubbed off some of
the originality.
*
-Beatrix Potter

Rhythm is something you either

have or don't have, and when you

have it, you have it all over.

*

-Elvis Presley

My sketchbook is a witness

of what I am experiencing,

scribbling things whenever

they happen.

*

-Vincent van Gogh

I may not have gone where
I intended to go, but I
think I have ended up
where I needed to be.
*
-Douglas Adams

Turn and face the

strange ch ch changes.

*

-David Bowie

We all do fade as a leaf.

*

-Isaiah 64:6

One cannot conceive anything

so strange and so implausible

that it has not already been said

by one philosopher or another.

*

-Rene Descartes

photo of the beloved jember by chalice

On the internet, nobody

knows you're a dog.

*

-Peter Steiner, New Yorker Cartoon

photograph by W. Eugene Smith

Only children know what

they are looking for.

*

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

8A slinky will stretch to 87 feet (flat).

8Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

8It takes about 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a season's worth of footballs.

What other dungeon is so

dark as one’s own heart?

What jailer so inexorable

as one’s own self?

*

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

If this is coffee, please bring

me some tea; but if this is tea,

please bring me some coffee.

*

-Abraham Lincoln

Unite my heart to fear your name.

*

-Psalm 86:11

Life is full of misery,

loneliness, and suffering -

and it's all over much

too soon.

*

-Woody Allen

All the beautiful sentiments in

the world weigh less than a

single lovely action.

*

-James Russell Lowell

I'd like to live

as a poor man with

lots of money.

*

-Pablo Picasso

Rene Magritte, The False Mirror

It's not what you look at

that matters; it's what

you see.

*

-Henry David Thoreau

photo by kyrie anna ruth

Be yourself.

Everyone else is

already taken.

*

-Oscar Wilde

(HT:Aubren)

I thought about how mothers

feed their babies with tiny

little spoons and forks so I

wondered, what do Chinese

mothers use? Toothpicks?

*

-George Carlin

Gustave Baumann, Cottonwood Tassels

A gentle tongue is a tree of life.

*

-Proverbs 15:4

You don't have to cook fancy

or complicated masterpieces -

just good food from fresh

ingredients.

*

-Julia Child