happy birthday kate!

May my love for you do what
spring does with the cherry trees.

-Pablo Neruda



There is no such thing
as an underestimation of
average intelligence.

-Henry Adams



maxfield parrish

I never read, I just
look at pictures.

-Andy Warhol



Giving is true having.

-Charles Spurgeon



To dwell is to garden.

-Martin Heidegger



The good and the wise
lead quiet lives.

-Euripides



When a thief kisses you,
count your teeth.

-Yiddish proverb



jago silver


I love the ocean.  Boats, not so much.

-Jeff Goldblum



tracey ann finley

You never know what worse luck
your bad luck has saved you from.

-Cormac McCarthy



Beware of the young doctor and
the old barber.

-Benjamin Franklin



There is no work, however
vile or sordid, that does not
glisten before God.

-John Calvin



We are all special cases.

-Albert Camus



edward john poynter

I like the dreams of the future
better than the history of the past.

-Thomas Jefferson



Always make the audience suffer
as much as possible.

-Alfred Hitchcock



People who get nostalgic about
childhood were obviously never
children.

-Bill Watterson



Price is what you pay. 
Value is what you get.

-Warren Buffet



Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

-Mitch Hedberg



Knowledge of the sciences is so much

smoke apart from the heavenly science

of Christ.

-John Calvin




Vegetarian - that's an old indian
word meaning lousy hunter.

-Andy Rooney

jessie willcox smith

Kindness in women, not their
beauteous looks, shall win
my love.

-Washington Irving



My plumbing is all messed up. 
Because, as it turns out, I do not
own a garbage disposal.

-Demetri Martin



"Know thyself?" 
If I knew myself, I'd run away.

-Goethe



Fart proudly.

-Benjamin Franklin

maurice sendak


I've overeducated myself in all the things
I shouldn't have known.

-Noel Coward




Phrases originating 400 years ago in
the King James Bible:

East of Eden
Pour out your heart
The skin of my teeth
From time to time
Take root
At their wit's end
Gave up the ghost
Feet of clay
A fly in the ointment
A drop in the bucket
The root of the matter
The powers that be
Fell flat on his face
Turned the world upside down
Put words in my mouth
Salt of the earth
Out of the mouth of babes
The blind leading the blind
Fought the good fight



Design is everything. 
Everything!

-Paul Rand



Love is a flower. 
You've got to let it grow.

-John Lennon



By the time we've made it,
we've had it.

-Malcolm Forbes



The secret to originality is knowing
how to hide your sources.

-Albert Einstein




When you got nothing, you got
nothing to lose.

-Bob Dylan



I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday
night until Monday morning alone in my
apartment.  That's how I refuel.

-Audrey Hepburn



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