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



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