by Marty Coleman Mar 31, 2026 | Series |
Day 22
“Perfectionish doesn’t believe in improvement.”
Drawn 3/22/2012
Day 23
“The best way out is always through.”
Drawn 3/22/2013
Day 24
“Imagine walking a mile in someone else’s headlines.”
Drawn 3/24/2015
Day 25
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
Drawn 3/25/2009
Day 26
“Respect my existence or expect my resistance.”
Drawn 3/24/2021
Day 27
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
Drawn 3/27/2014
Day 28
“We shape clay into a pot but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”
Drawn on 3/9/2011
Day 29
“yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
Drawn on 3/24/2016
Day 30
“He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” – MLK, Jr.
drawn 3/6/2001
Day 31
“Research is what we are doing when we don’t know what we are doing.”
Drawn 3/31/2014
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by Marty Coleman Mar 21, 2026 | Series |
Day 15
“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
Drawn 3/15/2011
Day 16
“When calamity has been suffered, remember first how much has escaped.”
Drawn 3/16/2011
Day 17
“Few women admit their age, few men act theirs.”
Drawn 3/17/2013
Day 18
“What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs.”
Drawn 3/18/2011
Day 19
“If you are naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don’t like.”
Drawn 3/18/2014
Day 20
“They say nobody’s perfect then they say practice makes perfect. I wish they would make up their mind.”
Drawn 3/20/2012
Day 21
“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it it brings others.”
Drawing 3/21/2012
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by Marty Coleman Mar 15, 2026 | Series |
Day 8
“People who change the world have declared independence from other people’s expectations.”
Drawn 3/8/2016
Day 9
“Once you label me, you negate me.”
Drawn 3/9/2015
Day 10
“Definitions belong to the definer, not the defined.”
Drawn 3/11/2014
Day 11
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
Drawn 3/11/2013
Day 12
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
Drawn 3/12/2001
Day 13
“Simplicity is less thoughts, not less thinking.”
Drawn 3/13/2014
Day 14
“Calamity is the great leveler.”
The napkin drawing is an interpretation of Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ from 36 views of Mt. Fuji – woodblock print, 1831
Drawn 3/14/2011
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by Marty Coleman Mar 7, 2026 | Series |
Day 1
“No human chooses evil because it is evil, they just mistake it for happiness.”
Drawn 3/1/2017
Day 2
“Only a fool tests the waters with both feet.”
Drawn 3/2/2011
Day 3
“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
Drawn 3/3/2017
Day 4
“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.”
Drawn 3/4/2011
Day 5
“Flatterers look like friends as wolves look like dogs.”
Drawn 3/5/2013
Day 6
“there is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”
Drawn 3/5/2013
Day 7
“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, then give up thinking what is charming.”
Drawn 3/4/2013
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by Marty Coleman Feb 28, 2026 | Series |
Day 22
“A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Drawn 2/13/2017
Day 23
“Even if our choices aren’t free, we aren’t free to not choose.”
Drawn 2/25/2010
Day 24
“Three letter words that Ignite Creativity: I can’t even draw a stick figure….YET.”
drawn 2/23/2016
Day 25
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
drawn 2/15/2017
Day 26
“One reason a dog can be such comfort when you’re feeling blue is that they don’t try to find out why.”
Drawn 2/22/2011
Day 27
“The phrase ‘Working Mother’ is redundant.”
Drawn on a napkin 2/19/2014
Day 28
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
Drawn 2/18/2014
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by Marty Coleman Feb 21, 2026 | Series |
Day 15
“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your bra at night.”
Drawn 2/10/2014
Day 16
“If you are happy you are fulfilling the purpose of existence.”
Drawn 2/11/2015
Day 17
“Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule.”
Drawn 2/25/2013
Day 18
“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
Drawn 2/28/2013
Day 19
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
Drawn 2/16/2009
Day 20
“Humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself; it means you think of yourself less.”
Drawn 2/29/2012
Day 21
“Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.”
Drawn 2/27/2012
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by Marty Coleman Feb 14, 2026 | Series |
Day 8
“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.”
Drawn 2/4/2016
Day 9
Drawn 2/4/2011
Day 10
“Respect is love in plain clothes.”
Drawn 2/5/2010
Day 11
“A negative mind will never lead to a positive life.”
Drawn 2/8/2016
Day 12
“The surest way to corrupt a young person is to teach them to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.” Nietzsche
If I taught my children one thing, I hope it is this.
Drawn 2/3/2003
Day 13
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Drawn 2/2/2012
Day 14
“Love is being stupid together.”
Happy Valentines Day!
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by Marty Coleman Feb 7, 2026 | Series |
I am continuing to post on social media a napkin drawing every day. Here on my site I am posting them weekly. This month i’ve decided to include the commentary I wrote with the napkin on the date originally posted.
Day 1
“Spring, summer, fall fill us with hope; Winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
Drawn 2/1/2011
Day 2
“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”
Drawn 2/2/2010
Day 3
“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can’t attain it in anything.”
Drawn on 2/3/2009
Day 4
“I hear and I forget.
Confucius
Drawn 2/4/2009
Day 5
“Effort and Courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
Drawn 2/5/2015
Day 6
“here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete: If you are alive, it isn’t.”
Drawn on 2/2/2015
Day 7
“Those who want to imitate anything produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali
Drawn 2/7/2009
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Day 25
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” – Horace Mann
Drawn 1/10/2001
Day 26
“There is no greater joy for a fool than to find a greater fool.”
Drawn 1/15/2013
Day 27
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
Drawn 1/17/2013
Day 28
“A fool flatters herself, a wise woman flatters the fool.”
Drawn 1/16/2013
Day 29
“The universe is uncanny at serving up what we need most in the guise of what we fear most.”
Drawn on 1/8/2014
Day 30
“Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold, chisel and complete a character.”
Drawn on 1/29/2013
Day 31
“She jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
Drawn on 1/24/2013
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by Marty Coleman Jan 24, 2026 | January , January Napkins |
Day 18
“If you can dream it, you can launch it.”
Drawn on a napkin 1/23/2014
Day 19
“We may have all come on different ships but we are all in the same boat now.” – MLK, Jr.
Drawn on a napkin, 1/19/2015
Day 20
“Choose discomfort over regret.”
Drawn 1/27/2011
Day 21
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
Drawn 1/3/2018
Day 22
“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.”
Drawn 1/4/2011
Day 23
“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
Drawn 1/3/2011
Day 24
“If triangles had a god she would have 3 sides.”
Drawn on 1/21/2014
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