“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
Day 24
“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
Day 25
“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
Day 26
“Just because you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
Drawn 5/24/2013
Day 27
‘Writing Lesson Number 1: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.”
Drawn 5/24/2011
Day 28
“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
Day 29
“Taking Joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”
Drawn 5/24/2013
Day 30
“Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.”
Drawn 5/13/2014
Day 31
“If you have a radical idea, be conservative in how you carry it out.”
“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.”
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.”
