Veni, Vidi, Velcro.

(I came, I saw, I stuck around)

*

-good motto for St. Elmo, Tennesee

Cheese - milk's leap toward

immortality.

*

-Clifton Fadiman

You have turned for me

my mourning into dancing;

you have loosed my sackcloth

and clothed me with gladness.

*

-Psalm 30:11

painting by duane keiser

When you can do the

common things of life in

an uncommon way, you will

command the attention of

the world.

*

-George Washington Carver

What people don’t realize

is how much religion costs.

They think faith is a big

electric blanket, when of

course it is the cross.

*

-Flannery O'Connor

She's the one being kissed in this famous

photograph taken by Robert Doisneau in

1950, Paris.

jill greenberg

Life is a wretched gray Saturday,

but it has to be lived through.

*

-Anthony Burgess

I am fond of children -

except boys.

*

-Lewis Carroll

Better to be alone than

in bad company.

*

-George Washington

As runs the glass,

man's life doth pass.

*

-The New England Primer, 1690

Relationship is a pervading

and changing mystery.

*

-Eudora Welty

Whatever you may be sure

of, be sure of this, that

you are dreadfully like

other people.
*

-James Russell Lowell

Rest is the sweet sauce

of labor.

*

-Plutarch (46ad-120ad)

sam brown

When words fail, music speaks.

*

-Hans Christian Anderson

The whole purpose of

education is to turn mirrors

into windows.

*

-Sydney J. Harris

Here's the test to find out

whether your mission on earth
is finished. If you're alive it isn't.
*
-Richard Bach

This is my beloved,

and this is my friend.

*

-Song of Solomon 5:16

8Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

8For every person on earth there are 200 million insects.

8Lightning strikes about 625 people every year in the United States.

You don't master the Holga,

only occasionally subdue it.

*

-Bill Jensen

He was a bold man that

first ate an oyster.

*

-Jonathan Swift

I couldn’t wait for success,

so I went ahead without it.

*

-Jonathan Winters

judi bagnato

One of the disadvantages

of wine is that it can

make a man mistake words

for thoughts.

*

-Samuel Johnson

Skiing combines outdoor fun

with knocking down trees

with your face.

*

-Dave Barry

photo by ashley wingo

I tell you the truth, anyone

who will not receive the

kingdom of God like a little child

will never enter it.

-Mark 10:15

I believe in an open mind,

but not so open that your

brains fall out.
*

–Arthur Sulzberger

I'm an excellent driver.

*

-Rainman

A yawn is a silent shout.

*

-G. K. Chesterton

Never eat more than you

can lift.

*

-Miss Piggy

It's very good to

shut up sometimes.

*

-Marcel Marceau

We all may have come

on different ships, but

we’re in the same boat now.

*

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Then Jesus told his disciples

a parable to show them that

they should always pray and

not lose heart.

*

-Luke 18:1

annie huntington

The most beautiful thing

we can experience is the

mysterious. It is the source

of all true art and science.

*

-Albert Einstein

Happy Chinese New Year!

Look what just appeared in your local post office. I beg you not to use boring generic postage stamps when stimulating choices like this are available. There's only 12 stamps on a whole sheet so these are very affordable (less than $5 per sheet). Get going.

Speech is conveniently
located midway between
thought and action, where
it often substitutes for both.
*
–John Andrew Holmes

The most dangerous

strategy is to jump

a chasm in two leaps.

*

-Benjamin Disraeli

Too often we enjoy the

comfort of opinion without

the discomfort of thought.

*

-John F. Kennedy

Eat before shopping.

If you go to the store

hungry, you are likely

to make unnecessary

purchases.

*

–American Heart Association Cookbook

Whoever finds his life

will lose it, and whoever

loses his life for my sake

will find it.

*

-Matthew 11:39

Never play leapfrog with

a unicorn.

*

-Irish proverb

There is no great

concurrence between

learning and wisdom.

*

-Francis Bacon

Do what you can, with what

you have, where you are.

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-Theodore Roosevelt

annie huntington

If more of us valued food and
cheer and song above hoarded gold,
it would be a merrier world.
*
-J. R. R. Tolkien

I have never met a man

so ignorant that I couldn’t

learn something from him.

*

-Galileo

Let us be grateful to people

who make us happy. They are

the charming gardeners who

make our souls blossom.

*

-Marcel Proust

painting by duane keiser

Bear fruit in keeping with

repentance.

*

-Matthew 3:8

There is no sincerer love
than the love of food.
*
-George Bernard Shaw

william bouguereau

Beauty is not in the face;

beauty is a light in the heart.

*

-Kahlil Gibran

When things are at their

worst I find something

always happens.

*

-W. Somerset Maugham

You can’t wait for

inspiration. You have

to go after it with

a club.

*

-Jack London

photo by brae

Gratitude is happiness

doubled by wonder.

*

-G. K. Chesterton