It’s a good thing God chose me before I was

born, because he surely would not have

afterwards.

-Charles Spurgeon



Morning comes whether you set the
alarm or not.

-Ursula Le Guin



joan miro

The more I work, the
more I want to work.

-Joan Miro



Everything we do should be a
result of our gratitude for what
God has done for us.

-Lauryn Hill



Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

-John Muir



One is very crazy when in love.

-Sigmund Freud



We meet no ordinary people in
our lives.

-C. S. Lewis



tracey ann finley

God the Father is a deep root, the
Son is the shoot that breaks forth
into the world, and the Spirit is that
which spreads beauty and fragrance.

-Tertullian



Buy the ticket.  Take the ride.

-Hunter S. Thompson



Self-love is not so vile a sin as
self-neglecting.

-William Shakespeare



Little things console us because
little things afflict us.

-Blaise Pascal



mordecai ardon

When I have learnt to love God more
than my earthly dearest, I shall love my
earthly dearest better than I do now.

-C. S. Lewis



This stuff is practically a minor miracle. 
Go here to read all kinds of things you
can do with this cheap little box of
white powder.



One always thinks that

others are happy.

-Yiddish proverb



I have given to all able men ability.

-Exodus 31:6



andy goldsworthy

Color is an intense experience
on its own.

-Jim Hodges



Parents are not interested in justice.
They are interested in quiet!

-Bill Cosby



Go and wake up your luck.

-Persian proverb



roy lichtenstein

I like to pretend that my art has
nothing to do with me.

-Roy Lichtenstein



It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

-Walt Disney



A cloudy day is no match for a
sunny disposition.

-William Arthur Ward



If they can see you love them,
you can say anything to them.

-Richard Baxter



Don't look back.  Something might
be gaining on you.

-Satchel Paige



There are two theories to
arguing with a woman. 
Neither works.

-Will Rogers



jago silver

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson



Avoid popularity if you
would have peace.

-Abraham Lincoln



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Happy Lunar New Year
fellow dragon lovers! 
Only $5.40 for a sheet
of 12 down at the P.O.  



If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; but if you really make them
think, they'll hate you.

-Don Marquis



Worthy is the Lamb who
was slain.

-Revelation 5:12



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Here is the new stamp to use if you're sending
a large greeting card, or using a square envelope.
It depicts a Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly,
one of Maryland's state symbols.  How many of
us know our official state bug?



Starting on monday the postcard rate will go to 32 cents,
and one ounce first class to 45 cents.  There are some
real nice-looking stamps coming up this year.  One of
the first is this cute set of aloha postcard stickers, ready
and waiting for you down at the P.O.



You can be sincere and still be stupid.

-Charles Kettering



The soul becomes dyed with
the color of its thoughts.

-Marcus Aurelius



Life is just a bowl of pits.

-Rodney Dangerfield



I have decided to stick with love;
hate is too great a burden to bear.

-Martin Luther King




Following Jesus is more
than keeping rules, but
it's not less.

-Kevin DeYoung



Change before you have to.

-Jack Welch

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This is what I call a pretty stamp.  It makes me want
to write a letter and dress up an envelope. 
How about you?



I would go out with women
my age, but there are no women
my age.

-George Burns



I wouldn't know how to handle
serenity if somebody handed it
to me on a plate.

-Dusty Springfield



Every act of creation is first of
all an act of destruction.

-Pablo Picasso



A human being must have occupation if
he or she is not to become a nuisance to
the world.

-Dorothy Sayers



Wherever your treasure is,
there will your heart be also.

-Matthew 6:21



I hope that some day we'll be able
to put away our fears and prejudices
and just laugh at people.

-Jack Handey 



Everybody in here's innocent. 
Didn't you know that?

-The Shawshank Redemption



In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candlelight
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.

-Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses



Aim at heaven and you will
get earth thrown in.  Aim at
earth and you get neither.

-C. S. Lewis



Marriage is a great institution, but
I'm not ready for an institution yet.

-Mae West



Has it ever struck you that the moon perfectly covers
the sun when it passes between the sun and the earth
during an eclipse?  And the shadow of the earth perfectly
matches the size of the moon when the sun casts earth's
shadow on the moon?  Given the differences in the sizes
of the spheres and the distances between them what is
the likelihood that this would happen by chance? 



Blessed is he whose hope is in the Lord
his God, who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that is in them.

-Psalm 146:5