31 Drawings of May

Day 12

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”

Drawn 5/6/2016


Day 13

“Mothers are the gardeners of the human race.”

Drawn Mother’s Day 2016


Day 14

“It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it.”


Day 15

“It is hard to tell what brings happiness: poverty and wealth have both failed.” (I vote for art)

Drawn 5/18/2011


Day 16

“At twenty we worry about what others think of us;
At forty we don’t care what others think of us;
At sixty we realize they haven’t been thinking about us at all.”

Drawn 5/6/2011


Day 17

“You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.”

Drawn 5/3/2017


Day 18

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Drawn 5/9/2017


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31 Days of May, Week 1

The first several days of this week were taken up with reintroducing myself to a new audience, explaining how I became the Napkin Dad. You can read that story at ‘Napkin Beginnings’ at the top menu.


Day 5

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making of something after finding it.”

Drawn 5/17/2016


Day 6

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists primarily of dealings with men.”

Drawn 5/23/2016


Day 7

“The bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies – probably because they are generally the same people!”

Drawn 5/19/2011


Day 8

“Mothers are the gardeners of the human race.”


Day 9

“If the world were perfect it wouldn’t be.”


Day 10

“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.”


Day 11

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”


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30 Drawings of April, week 4 and 5

Day 22

“to keep a fire burning have the logs close enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart for air to fan the flames.”

Draw 4/10/2012


Day 23

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

Drawn 4/11/2014


Day 24

“Wounds teach better lessons than lectures.”

Drawn 4/16/2014


Day 25

“In life, one is always alone. The important thing is with whom.”

Drawn 4/25/2014


Day 26

“Every person must do two things alone. They must do their own believing and their own dying.”

Drawn 4/29/2014


Day 27

“If you scatter thorns don’t go barefoot.”

Drawn 4/22/2013


Day 28

“The name we give to something shapes our attitude towards it.”

Drawn 4/11/2019


Day 29

“One plays the piano, gets discord. Another plays, gets harmony. The piano is not at fault. The same is true of life.”

Drawn 4/28/2010


Day 30

“The foolish reject what they see. The wise reject what they think.”

Drawn 4/21/2017


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30 Drawings of April, week 3

Day 15

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”

And I would add – forgiveness will start to happen when you take forgiving action, not just think about it.

Drawn 4/15/2009


Day 16

“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.”

Drawn 4/22/2011


Day 17

“Training boys is wiser than limiting girls.”

Drawn 4/23/2013


Day 18

“What counts in a happy marriage isn’t how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”

Drawn 4/13/2012


Day 19

“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

drawn 4/12/2012


Drawn 4/13/2012


Day 20

“By all means marry; if you get a good spouse you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

Drawn 4/12/2012


Day 21

“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”

Drawn 4/11/2012


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30 Drawings of April, week 2

Day 8

“Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.”

drawn 4/9/2010


Day 9

“to educate a man in mind but not morals is to educate a menace to society.”

Drawn 4/1/2004


Day 10

“the illusion that exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.”

Drawn 4/27/2015


Day 11

“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit can still rejoice over what it has left.”

Drawn 4/22/2009


Day 12

“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends call it.”

Drawn 4/1/2011


Day 13

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”

Drawn 4/23/2009


“You will know forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”

Drawn 4/15/2009


© 2026 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com