No one ever told me that grief
felt so like fear.

-C. S. Lewis

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Decide what to be and go be it.

-The Avett Brothers, Head Full of Doubt



As soon as I hear a sound,
it always suggests a mood
to me.

-Brian Eno



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We don't need no stinking badges!

-Treasure of the Sierra Madre



ernest shepard

I've got nothing to do today
but smile.

-Paul Simon



Of all the the senses, sight must
be the most delightful.

-Helen Keller



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This train is bound for glory.

-traditional American gospel song




Surprise me.

-Bob Hope (last words, spoken to his wife when asked
where he wanted to be buried)



mark rothko

I merely took the energy
it takes to pout and wrote
some blues.

-Duke Ellington



pieter claesz


To the artist there is never anything
ugly in nature.

-Auguste Rodin



Love is an exploding cigar we
willingly smoke.

-Lynda Barry





Socialism, in general, has a record
of failure so blatant that only an
intellectual could ignore or evade it.

-Thomas Sowell



The fanatical Church of Global
Warming is a hate-filled conventicle
of intolerant zealots.

-Peter Hitchens




I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost



Reason should direct and appetite obey.

-Cicero



A handful of patience
is worth more than a
bushel of brains.

-Dutch proverb



I was born with a plastic spoon
in my mouth.

-Pete Townshend



I only go out to get me a fresh
appetite for being alone.

-Lord Byron





Most of the change we think we
see in life is due to truths being
in and out of favor.

-Robert Frost



mitch dobrowner

As soon as there is life there is danger.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson



The real battle in life is to be as
happy in God as we can be.

-John Piper



john tenniel



You will never find time
for anything.  You must
make it.

-Charles Buxton



Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in
few words.

-Ecclesiasticus 32:8



Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.

-Mother Teresa

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your love
never can fail
to pierce me
hammers and nails

-Mark Heard



Above all do not lose your desire
to walk.

-Soren Kierkegaard



I have great faith in fools;
self-confidence my friends
call it.

-Edgar Allan Poe



Christianity is the greatest
intellectual system the mind
of man has ever touched.

-Francis Schaeffer



The secret to humor
is surprise.

-Aristotle



Be less curious about people
and more curious about ideas.

-Marie Curie



A man may be a fool and not know
it, but not if he is married.

-H. L. Mencken



When the people find they can
vote themselves money, that will
herald the end of the republic.

-Benjamin Franklin

 bruno zupan

Flowers are happy things.

-P. G. Wodehouse



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Gives shy people the strength to get up
and do what needs to be done.

-Garrison Keiller



Blessed is the man who walks not in the
counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way
of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and
on his law he meditates day and night.

-Psalm 1:1-2



Religious man, who was born to be
saved, has given way to psychological
man, who was born to be pleased.

-Philip Rieff



Golden lads and girls all must,
as chimney sweepers,
come to dust.

-William Shakespeare



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By nature, men love newfangledness.

-Geoffrey Chaucer



...and forgive us our trashbaskets
as we forgive those who put trash
in our baskets.

-overheard prayer from a four year old.



m. c. escher

I don't use drugs, my dreams
are frightening enough.

-M. C. Escher



Jesus is the cornerstone.  And there is
salvation in no one else, for there is no
other name under heaven given to
mankind by which we must be saved.

-Acts 4:11-12



If I get married, I want to be
very married.

-Audrey Hepburn



Then all the disciples left him
and fled.

-Matthew 26:56

david hockney

Anything simple always interests me.

-David Hockney



brae howard

Every good painter paints what
he is.

-Jackson Pollock



People seldom do what they
believe in.  They do what is
convenient, then repent.

-Bob Dylan



Take away paradox from the thinker
and you have a professor.

-Soren Kierkegaard



Love and marriage, go together
like a horse and carriage.

-Frank Sinatra (sort of)



The riddles of God are more
satisfying than the solutions
of man.

-G. K. Chesterton