“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.”
“I think it’s about time we vote for people with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.”
Drawn 4/16/2012
Day 2
“Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.”
This has been me too many times in my life. I rationalized it as an opportunity when it was just me being drawn to what I desired. Of course, both things can be true at the same time but even if it is an opportunity you might miss it if you are focused on the short term fulfillment of your desire. The long game is the hardest game to play.
Drawn 4/14/2016
Day 3
“If you want to kill a good idea, get a committee working on it.
Drawn 4/28/2016
Day 4
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Drawn 4/12/2011
Day 5
“Don’t let imaginary dangers inflict real wounds.”
Drawn 4/14/2015
Day 6
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
Drawn 4/27/2009
Day 7
“You can be misunderstood once. After that, you are just communicating poorly.”
“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.”
