I have been crazy busy with an overnight trip to Houston that turned into 4 days then 3 days of 2 of our grandsons staying with us. As a result I started posting from my ipad, where I don’t have any of my napkins stored, but I do have a ton of digital drawings I’ve done over the years. So digital drawings it’s been for the past week or two.
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contacct with a new idea.”
Drawn 7/30/2009
“Anger is only one letter short of danger.”
Drawn 8/15/2011
“Many people will lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.”
Drawn 8/16/2011
“How we do admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice.”
Drawn 8/20/2001
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Drawn 8/3/2010
“Communication: The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.”
Drawn 8/18/2015
“Communication: Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you are saying.”
Drawn 8/12/2015
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“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
Drawn 7/26/2016
“If I had to live my life again, i’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
Drawn 7/11/2013
“Creativity is allowing your self to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Drawn 7/12/2013
“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
Drawn 7/15/2013
“Success in life is founded on making only the right mistakes.”
Drawn on 7/17/2013
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road of truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
Drawn 7/18/2013
“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.”
Drawn 7/13/2011
“Minds are like Flowers – They only open when the time is right.”
Drawn 7/22/2015
“Done is better than perfect.”
Drawn 7/15/2015
“A Promise is a cloud, fulfillment is the rain.”
Drawn 7/9/2014
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“Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.”
Drawn 7/19/2010
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.”
Drawn 7/20/2010
Jade at Starbucks
Drawn 7/30/2014
Jade holding her drawing
Taken 7/30/2014
‘Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
Drawn 7/29/2013
“A person finds their identity by identifying.”
Drawn 7/30/2013
“Deciding what to remember is how we decide who we are.”
Drawn 7/31/2013
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“If there is anything we wish to change in a child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves.”
Drawn 7/8/2011
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
Drawn 7/7/2011
“When you are finished changing, you are finished.”
Drawn 7/6/2011
“The only difference between a rut and a grave is the dimensions.”
drawn 7/5/2011
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
Drawn 7/11/2015
“The Curious Paradox: When I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Drawn 7/21/2015
“Guns don’t kill people, bullets do.”
Drawn 7/20/2012
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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
Drawn 6/4/2009
“What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise.”
Drawn 7/2/2015
“As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” – George Washington.
Drawn 7/4/2014
“What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.”
Drawn 7/4/2010
“Unless you change direction, you will get where you are headed.”
Drawn 7/25/2011
“Beauty is a brief gasp between one cliche and another.”
Drawn 7/12/2017
“She poured coffee as if she was from Oshkosh but she poured it in Texas.”
Drawn at the Gaylord Hotel in Texas 7/5/2012
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“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”
Drawn on 6/9/2009
“She occasionally stumbled over the truth but hastily picked herself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
Quote by Winston Churchill, commenting on a political opponent who had insulted him earlier.
Drawn on 6/16/2014
“Life is much more unexpected…than I expected.”
Quote by me.
Drawn on 6/13/2004
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“Extroverts are introverts who haven’t had their fill yet.”
“to keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.”
“You won’t love your neighbor if you don’t know your neighbor.”
“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than the honesty.”
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
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“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
Drawn 6/5/2018
“A single hair casts a shadow.”
Drawn on a napkin 6/22/2020
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”
Drawn 6/7/2011
“What happens to the hole when the donut is gone?”
“What happens to the donut when the hole is gone?”
Drawn 6/9/2011
“To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.”
Drawn 6/29/2011
“Extroverts are introverts who haven’t had their fill yet.”
Drawn 5/10/2014
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“Don’t love hating people” – Sarah Haines
“Self-pity makes even the simplest problem almost impossible to solve.”
Drawn 6/9/2010
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
Drawn on a napkin 6/6/2016
“Never miss an opportunity to make others happy even if you have to leave them alone to do it.
Drawn 6/10/2015
“An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies…all the stupid men.”
Drawn 6/8/2010
“Blindspots don’t want to be seen.”
Drawn 6/1/2016
“You’re so ugly.”
“Really? I was trying to look like you today!”
Drawn 6/19/2014
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