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