And I need you more than
want you.  And I want you
for all time.

-Jimmy Webb, Wichita Lineman 



Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady
wish for the loved person's ultimate good
as far as it can be obtained.

-C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock



A wounded deer leaps the highest.

-Emily Dickinson



Every single great idea that has marked
the 21st century, the 20th century, and the
19th century has required government
vision and government incentive.

-Vice President Joe Biden





Let my love open the door.

-Pete Townshend



david doubilet

And God said, "let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures."

-Genesis 1:20






From now on, ending a sentence
with a preposition is something
up with which I will not put.

-Winston Churchill



One never notices what
has been done; one can
only see what remains
to be done.

-Marie Curie



For what do we live but to make
sport for our neighbors, and laugh
at them in our turn.

-Jane Austen



I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

-Lou Reed



The trouble with being
punctual is that nobody's
there to appreciate it.

-Franklin P. Jones



Now and then an innocent man
is sent to the legislature.

-Kin Hubbard



That word above all
earthly powers,
no thanks to them,
abideth.

-Martin Luther, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God




-A butterfly can taste with its feet.
-Each eye of a dragonfly has 30,000 lenses.
-A giraffe sleeps only two hours a day.





A smile is the shortest
distance between two
people.

-Victor Borge



Television is chewing gum
for the eyes.

-Frank Lloyd Wright




If you tell the truth you don't
have to remember anything.

-Mark Twain



james harrison


Happiness is a warm puppy.

-Charles M. Schulz





Pleasure moves on too early
and trouble leaves too slow.

-Joni Mitchell



rembrandt van rijn, the storm on the sea of galilee


Q. What is your only comfort in life
and in death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong
- body and soul in life and in death -
to my faithful savior Jesus Christ.

-Heidelberg Catechism




Despite all my rage I am
still just a rat in a cage.

-Smashing Pumpkins




Winning isn't everything, 
but wanting to win is.

-Vince Lombardi 



Success has ruined
many a man.

-Ben Franklin




This is an ordinary sample of my father's
handwriting on a recycled envelope..  My
mother's penmanship was also quite
beautiful and legible as was probably 90%
of their generation's.  What has happened?




There are no hard times
for good ideas.

-Gordon Selfridge



m. c. escher


At moments of great enthusiasm it seems
to me that no one in the world has ever made
something this beautiful and important.

-M. C. Escher




By your words you will be
justified, and by your words
you will be condemned.

-Matthew 12:37




Rigid, the skeleton of
habit alone upholds the human frame.

-Virginia Woolf



If I'm free it's because
I'm always running.

-Jimi Hendrix



Any fool can make a rule.

-Henry David Thoreau




October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

-Nova Blair



Be not afraid of solitude.

-Werner Herzog






A light heart lives
long.

-William Shakespeare



Not to us, O Lord,
not to us, but to your
name give glory.

-Psalm 115:1



Facts are stupid things.

-Ronald Reagan




But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.

-C. S. Lewis



Every mile is two in winter.

-George Herbert



paul cezanne

The silence of the place was like
a sleep, so full of rest it seemed.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



The heart of the giver makes
the gift dear and precious.

-Martin Luther



There are strings in the
human heart that had
better not be vibrated.

-Charles Dickens



The secret of the Lord is
with those who fear Him.

-Psalm 25:14



Expenditure rises
to meet income.

-C. Northcote Parkinson



Some people can stay longer in an
hour than others can in a week.

-William Howells



A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

-Chinese proverb



m. c. escher

When dealing with the insane, the

best method is to pretend to be sane.
 -Hermann Hesse



I may be totally wrong but i'm a dancing fool.

-Frank Zappa



It's okay not to be okay -
but it's not okay to stay there.

-Matt Chandler






The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

-William Gurnall



Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-Gertrude Stein



edgar degas


Painting is easy when you don't
know how, but very difficult
when you do.

-Edgar Degas