“Hatred does not cease by more hatred but only by love.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” – Voltaire
“A career is made in public, talent in private.”
“If hate has a shape it is of a boomerang.”
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you are looking for, go live with a car battery.”
Drawn 6/30/2011
“Consequence is no coincidence.”
Drawn 6/21/2016
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“If you feel indispensable, put your finger in a glass of water, withdraw it, and note the hole you have left.”
Drawn 5/8/2012
“It may take forever to win men’s minds by persuasion, but that’s quicker than you can do it by force.”
Drawn 5/18/2012
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Drawn on Memorial Day, 5/30/2011
“Just because you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
Drawn 5/24/2013
‘Writing Lesson Number 1: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.”
Drawn 5/24/2011
“There is nothing like a persuasive speedh to fuddle the mental apparatus, upset the convictions, and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the delusions of oratory.”
Drawn 5/17/2012
“Taking Joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”
Drawn 5/24/2013
“Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.”
Drawn 5/13/2014
“If you have a radical idea, be conservative in how you carry it out.”
Drawn 5/16/2014
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“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.”
Drawn 5/12/2016
“If the world were perfect it wouldn’t be.”
Drawn 5/10/2016
“If you would persuade others, seem open to persuasion yourself.”
Drawn 5/15/2012
“Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”
Drawn 5/14/2012
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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”
Drawn 5/6/2016
“Mothers are the gardeners of the human race.”
Drawn Mother’s Day 2016
“It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it.”
“It is hard to tell what brings happiness: poverty and wealth have both failed.” (I vote for art)
Drawn 5/18/2011
“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
“You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.”
Drawn 5/3/2017
“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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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.
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making of something after finding it.”
Drawn 5/17/2016
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists primarily of dealings with men.”
Drawn 5/23/2016
“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
“Mothers are the gardeners of the human race.”
“If the world were perfect it wouldn’t be.”
“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.”
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
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