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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!



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

-Samuel Johnson



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

-Judith Martin



There are worse things in life than

death.  Have you ever spent an

evening with an insurance salesman?

-Woody Allen



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



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

-Donald Trump



Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

-Soren Kierkegaard



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

-Ambrose Bierce



People everywhere confuse what
they read in newspapers with news.

-A. J. Leibling



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

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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



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

-Thomas Edison



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



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

-Frederic Bastiat

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



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

-Cecil Baxter



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

-Voltaire

georges seurat

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

-2 Peter 1:5



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

-Edmund Burke



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

-Chinese proverb



You cannot be mad at someone
who makes you laugh.

-Jay Leno





When ideas fail, words
come in very handy.

-Goethe



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



People will buy anything that
is one to a customer.

-Sinclair Lewis



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 



The weakest ink is stronger than
the best memory.

-John Blytheway



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

-Charles Spurgeon



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

-Alice Thomas Ellis



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

-Charles M. Schulz