When I got my first television set,
I stopped caring so much about
having close relationships.

-Andy Warhol



Jesus came into
the world to save
sinners.

-1 Timothy 1:15



You may not realize it when it
happens, but a kick in the teeth may
be the best thing in the world for you.

-Walt Disney



Good can imagine evil, but evil
cannot imagine good.

-W. H. Auden



Let food be thy

medicine.

-Hippocrates



Christianity, if false, is of no
importance, and if true, of infinite
importance. The only thing it cannot
be is moderately important.

-C. S. Lewis



tidings of comfort and joy!

Remember Christ our Savior
was born on Christmas day.

-God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen



The other night I ate at a real nice family
restaurant.  Every table had an argument
going on.

-George Carlin



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Behold, the virgin shall
conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name
Immanuel (which means
God with us).

-Matthew 1:23



Whatever poet, orator, or sage
may say of it, old age is still
old age.

-Sinclair Lewis



The more boys I meet,
the more I love my dog.

-Carrie Underwood



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.

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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

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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