Albert Einstein did not speak
until he was three years old.



I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin, but
by the content of their character.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.



Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.

-William Shakespeare



He will not be a wise man who
does not study the human heart.

-Charles Spurgeon

sam brown

There is only one good, knowledge,
and one evil, ignorance.

-Socrates



What's another word for thesaurus?

-Steven Wright



Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

-Harry S Truman



An artist cannot do anything
slovenly.

-Jane Austen



Don't worry about the world
coming to an end today.  It's
already tomorrow in Australia.

-Charles M. Shulz




Careful. We don't want
to learn from this.

-Calvin and Hobbes

paul klee

Is anything too hard for
the Lord?

-Genesis 18:14



Own only what you can carry with you.

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Annual income twenty pound, annual expenditure
nineteen six, result: happiness.  Annual income twenty
pound, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and
six, result: misery.

-Charles Dickens



A lot of movies are about life; mine
are like a slice of cake.

-Alfred Hitchcock



Did you know that if  the seven
billion people in this world stood
shoulder to shoulder we could all
fit in the city of Los Angeles?

-National Geographic



An artist is somebody who produces
things that you don't need to have.

-Andy Warhol




The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.

-Oscar Wilde


Whoever closes his ear to
the cry of the poor will himself
call out and not be answered.

-Proverbs 21:13



Determine today to read through the entire Bible in 2011.
That's only three chapters per day.  For a daily schedule
go here.



Geraldine Doyle, the woman who
modeled for this famous poster,
died yesterday at the age of  86.



A mother's love for her child is
like nothing else in the world.

-Agatha Christie




Here's a peak at some new postage stamps being issued
in 2011.  One of the changes this coming year will be
that every stamp will cover the postage for a normal
first-class envelope from here to eternity.  In other
words, all the newly issued stamps will say "forever." 
This will allow the U.S Postal Service to raise rates
more smoothly and at any time they'd like.  Sound
good?  Go here to view the entire line-up of stamps for
2011.  Be sure to hit the little scroll arrow at the bottom.
Some real dogs and some real winners too.  Among the
sweet surprises are a set of 4 Romare Bearden paintings
and a Wall-E stamp.  The Madonna and Child painting
for next Christmas will be a Raphael from The Walters
Art Museum in Baltimore.

sam brown

I know how frustrating it can be
when you're tired and exhausted,
but you still want to draw something.

-Ward Jenkins



Some days I would go without fire
at all, and eat raw frozen meat and
melt snow into my mouth for water.

-Buffalo Bill



They all were looking for a king
To slay their foes and lift them high;
Thou cam’st a little Baby thing
That made a woman cry.

-George MacDonald



robert campin (1375 - 1444)

O that birth forever blessèd,
When the virgin, full of grace,
By the Holy Ghost conceiving,
Bare the Saviour of our race;
And the Babe, the world’s Redeemer,
First revealed His sacred face,
evermore and evermore!

-Prudentius



And every mother's child
is gonna spy to see if reindeer
really know how to fly.

-Mel Torme



Snow provokes responses
that reach right back to childhood.

-Andy Goldsworthy

carl larsson

Nothing is ever like
it used to be.

-Malcolm Forbes



Five Golden Rings.

pax howard turns 16 today!

Birthday Boy.



So we have the prophetic
word made more sure, to
which you do well to pay
attention as to a lamp
shining in a dark place,
until the day dawns and
the morning star arises
in your hearts.

-2 Peter 1:19



You may delay, but time will not.

-Benjamin Franklin

tracey ann finley

I will show you fear
in a handful of dust.

-T. S. Eliot



When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he
were fighting bees.

-Abraham Lincoln



One clear mark of Christlike
tenderness is love for children.

-John Piper



If the only tool you have
is a hammer, you tend to see
every problem as a nail.

-Abraham Maslow

sam brown

For those about to rock.



He will crush your
head, and you will
strike His heel.

-Genesis 3:15



There is much pleasure to be gained
from useless knowledge.

-Bertrand Russell

jessie wilcox smith

Happiness isn't something
you experience; it's something
you remember.

-Oscar Levant

sam brown

There is no delight in owning
anything unshared.

-Seneca



A friend is one who has
the same enemies as you
have.

-Abraham Lincoln





Kind words do not cost us,
yet they accomplish much.

-Blaise Pascal



A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.

-Robert Louis Stevenson



edward steichen

For Christians sin has
been removed as an
enslaving power but
not as a corrupting
presence.

-Lane Tipton 



There is no such thing on earth as an
uninteresting subject; the only thing that
can exist is an uninterested person.

-G. K. Chesterton.




The object of opening the mind,
as of opening the mouth, is to
shut it again on something solid.

-G. K. Chesterton

the sartorialist


Don't know which is worse, doing
your own thing or just being cool.

-Bob Dylan

the sartorialist

Know first, who you are; and
then adorn yourself accordingly.

-Epictitus (55AD - 135AD)