Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting
in the Hollywood living room.

-Patricia Heaton



When a man knows he is to be executed
in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind
wonderfully.

-Samuel Johnson



Here are two stamps in a series of four that were released by the U. S. postal service today.  Romare Howard Bearden is especially famous for his pioneering use of collage. Stop by your post office and grab a sheet of 16 for just $7.04.  Click here to view all four designs.  Upgrade your mail, upgrade your life. 



8One third of all ice cream sold is
vanilla.
8James Buchanan was our only
bachelor president.
8Jupiter is bigger than all the other
planets put together.



beatrix potter

No day is so bad it can't

be fixed with a nap.

-Carrie P. Snow

john william waterhouse

If I find in myself a desire which no experience
in this world can satisfy, the most probable
explanation is that I was made for another world.

-C. S. Lewis



What if everything is an illusion and
nothing exists?  In that case, I definitely
overpaid for my carpet.

-Woody Allen



Democracy must be something more than
two wolves and one sheep voting on what
to have for dinner.

-James Bovard



I love to go to Washington -
if only to be near my money.

-Bob Hope



I hope that when I die, people
say about me, "Boy, that guy
sure owed me a lot of money."

-Jack Handey





Include me out.

-Samuel Goldwyn



Classic: a book which people
praise and don't read.

-Mark Twain



If you have been foolish,
exalting yourself, put your
hand on your mouth.

-Proverbs 30:32



the sartorialist

Why do you have to be
a noncomformist like
everybody else?

-James Thurber



To be trusted is a greater compliment
than to be loved.

-George MacDonald

andy goldsworthy

If you want to see what children can do,
you must stop giving them things.

-Norman Douglas



Beware of little expenses; a small
leak will sink a great ship.

-Benjamin Franklin

maxfield parrish

One golden day redeems
a weary year.

-Celia Thaxter



walt kendall, 1955 - 2011

Precious in the sight
of the Lord is the death
of his saints.

-Psalm 116:15



Public schools are the nurseries
of all vice and immorality.

-Henry Fielding



A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in
expressing his opinion.

-Proverbs 18:2



No man can look at the sun
or his own death with a
steady eye.

-Martin Amis



The worst loneliness is not to be
comfortable with yourself.

-Mark Twain



The worst enemy to creativity
is self doubt.

-Sylvia Plath



Patience is the companion
of wisdom.

-Augustine



I don't drink coffee, I take tea
my dear.

-Gordon Sumner (Sting), An Englishman in New York



The rich are the scum of the earth
in every country.

-G. K. Chesterton



Not only is your home like a little
church, but your church is like a
big family.

-Micah Bickford



It's only after we've lost everything
that we're free to do anything.

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club







That's the way things come clear. 

All of a sudden.  And then you realize

how obvious they've been all along.

-Madeleine L'Engle



We are all here for a spell; get all
the good laughs you can.

-Will Rogers