The Bible is the best gift God has ever
given to men.  All the good from the Savior
of the world is communicated to us through
this book.

-Abraham Lincoln

alas, i'm done. blogger has switched things up to the point that i can't figure out how to work it anymore. unless it goes back to the way it was i'll have to say adieu.




Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.

-Mother Teresa



Imagination is more important
than knowledge.

-Albert Einstein



When sin is your burden,
Christ will be your delight.

-Thomas Watson



If you bungle raising your children,
I don't think whatever else you do
matters very much.

-Jackie Kennedy

...



One of the most beautiful qualities
of true friendship is to understand
and to be understood.

-Seneca

...



I know.  It's the 4th of July. 
So why am I showing you
this new postage stamp? 
Because I like it.  Go buy
some down at the P. O.
(when they open back up).

...



People think it would be fun to be a bird

because you could fly. But they forget the

negative side, which is the preening.

-Jack Handey



...



The jury consists of twelve persons chosen
to decide who has the better lawyer.

-Robert Frost



No day is so bad it can't be
fixed with a nap.

-Carrie Snow



I rejoice at your word like
one who finds great spoil!

-Psalm 119: 162



A good lather is half the shave.

-William Hone



Gluttony is not a secret vice.

-Orson Wells

...



We are stripped bare by the curse
of plenty.

-Winston Churchill



Nothing you have not given away
will ever really be yours.

-C. S. Lewis



I wear black because I'm comfortable in it.

-Johnny Cash (stamp available down at the P.O.)



The mind is not a vessel to be
filled, but a fire to be kindled.

-Plutarch



For everyone who exalts himself will
be humbled, and he who humbles
himself will be exalted.

-Luke 14:11



A great artist is a great man
in a great child.

-Victor Hugo



There is nothing more enticing,
disenchanting, and enslaving
than the life at sea.

-Joseph Conrad



To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is
not what it's about, but the inner music
that words make.

-Truman Capote



It's the friends you can call up
at 4am that matter.

-Marlene Dietrich



It's a neighborly day in this
beauty wood.

-Fred Rogers



Better by far that you should
forget and smile than remember
and be sad.

-Christina Rossetti

rembrandt van rijn

But when he came to himself, he said,

"How many of my father's hired servants

have more than enough bread, but I perish

here with hunger!  I will arise and go to my

father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have

sinned against heaven and before you.  I am

no longer worthy to be called your son. 

Treat me as one of your hired servants." 

And he arose and came to his father.

-Luke 15: 17-20



Habit is stronger than reason.

-George Santayana



The schools aren't what they
used to be and never were.

-Will Rogers



andy goldsworthy

To say to the painter that Nature is to be
taken as she is, is to say to the player that
he may sit on the piano.

-James Whistler



Life is hardly more than a fraction
of a second.  Such a little time to
prepare oneself for eternity!

-Paul Gaugin



Those who stand for
nothing fall for
anything.

-Alexander Hamilton



Trouble is the common denominator
of living.  It is the great equalizer.

-Soren Kierkegaard



It is a poor sermon that gives no offense;
that neither makes the hearer displeased
with himself nor with the preacher.

-George Whitefield



The one thing that can
solve most of our problems
is dancing.

-James Brown



They always say time changes things,
but you actually have to change them
yourself.

-Andy Warhol



I've lost my faith in science.

-Bette Davis



A woman can't be alone.  She needs a man. 
A man and a woman support and strengthen
each other.

-Marilyn Monroe



I don't read the younger ones. 
I only read the dead.

-Martin Amis



Sometimes I am two people. 
Johnny is the nice one. 
Cash causes all the trouble. 
They fight.

-Johnny Cash



The happiness of the creature consists

in rejoicing in God, by which also God

is magnified and exalted.

-Jonathan Edwards



I was trying to daydream, but
my mind kept wandering.

-Steven Wright



The more you reason
the less you create.

-Raymond Chandler



 

 

To be miserable in the present because of

some failure in the past is a sheer waste of

time and energy. That is obvious. That is

common sense.

 

-D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

jessie wilcox smith

Let parents bequeath to their children not
riches, but the spirit of reverence.

-Plato

sam brown

If you fell down yesterday,
stand up today.

-H. G. Wells



The pain of parting is nothing
to the joy of meeting again.

-Charles Dickens



First we practice sin,
then defend it, then
boast of it.

-Thomas Manton



The only way to find true happiness
is to risk being completely cut open.

-Chuck Palahniuk



What is past is prologue.

-William Shakespeare



Good writing is essentially rewriting. 
I am sure of this.

-Roald Dahl



Reason nourishes faith,
and faith reason.

-Norman Cousins