fingerpost

2012-01-30T00:00:00.002-05:00

A cloudy day is no match for a
sunny disposition.

-William Arthur Ward

2012-01-29T08:04:00.000-05:00

If they can see you love them,
you can say anything to them.

-Richard Baxter

2012-01-28T00:00:00.002-05:00

Don't look back. Something might
be gaining on you.

-Satchel Paige

2012-01-27T08:30:00.000-05:00

There are two theories to
arguing with a woman.
Neither works.

-Will Rogers

2012-01-26T00:00:00.002-05:00

jago silver

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

2012-01-25T00:00:00.000-05:00

Avoid popularity if you
would have peace.

-Abraham Lincoln

2012-01-24T00:00:00.001-05:00

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Happy Lunar New Year
fellow dragon lovers!
Only $5.40 for a sheet
of 12 down at the P.O.

2012-01-23T00:00:00.001-05:00

If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; but if you really make them
think, they'll hate you.

-Don Marquis

2012-01-22T00:00:00.002-05:00

Worthy is the Lamb who
was slain.

-Revelation 5:12

2012-01-21T00:00:00.001-05:00

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Here is the new stamp to use if you're sending
a large greeting card, or using a square envelope.
It depicts a Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly,
one of Maryland's state symbols. How many of
us know our official state bug?

2012-01-20T00:00:00.005-05:00

Starting on monday the postcard rate will go to 32 cents,
and one ounce first class to 45 cents. There are some
real nice-looking stamps coming up this year. One of
the first is this cute set of aloha postcard stickers, ready
and waiting for you down at the P.O.

2012-01-19T00:00:00.002-05:00

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

-Charles Kettering

2012-01-18T08:23:00.000-05:00

The soul becomes dyed with
the color of its thoughts.

-Marcus Aurelius

2012-01-17T00:00:00.002-05:00

Life is just a bowl of pits.

-Rodney Dangerfield

2012-01-16T00:00:00.003-05:00

I have decided to stick with love;
hate is too great a burden to bear.

-Martin Luther King

2012-01-15T00:00:00.001-05:00

Following Jesus is more
than keeping rules, but
it's not less.

-Kevin DeYoung

2012-01-14T00:00:00.002-05:00

Change before you have to.

-Jack Welch

2012-01-13T00:00:00.004-05:00

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This is what I call a pretty stamp. It makes me want
to write a letter and dress up an envelope.
How about you?

2012-01-12T00:00:00.001-05:00

I would go out with women
my age, but there are no women
my age.

-George Burns

2012-01-11T00:00:00.002-05:00

I wouldn't know how to handle
serenity if somebody handed it
to me on a plate.

-Dusty Springfield

2012-01-10T00:00:00.001-05:00

Every act of creation is first of
all an act of destruction.

-Pablo Picasso

2012-01-09T00:00:00.002-05:00

A human being must have occupation if
he or she is not to become a nuisance to
the world.

-Dorothy Sayers

2012-01-08T00:00:00.004-05:00

Wherever your treasure is,
there will your heart be also.

-Matthew 6:21

2012-01-07T00:00:00.001-05:00

I hope that some day we'll be able
to put away our fears and prejudices
and just laugh at people.

-Jack Handey

2012-01-06T00:00:00.001-05:00

Everybody in here's innocent.
Didn't you know that?

-The Shawshank Redemption

2012-01-05T00:00:00.002-05:00

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candlelight
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.

-Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

2012-01-04T00:00:00.001-05:00

Aim at heaven and you will
get earth thrown in. Aim at
earth and you get neither.

-C. S. Lewis

2012-01-03T00:00:00.002-05:00

Marriage is a great institution, but
I'm not ready for an institution yet.

-Mae West

2012-01-02T00:00:00.001-05:00

Has it ever struck you that the moon perfectly covers
the sun when it passes between the sun and the earth
during an eclipse? And the shadow of the earth perfectly
matches the size of the moon when the sun casts earth's
shadow on the moon? Given the differences in the sizes
of the spheres and the distances between them what is
the likelihood that this would happen by chance?

2012-01-01T14:28:00.000-05:00

Blessed is he whose hope is in the Lord
his God, who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that is in them.

-Psalm 146:5

2011-12-31T00:00:00.005-05:00

Why is it that whenever I'm pulling an old
newspaper apart to start a fire (or whatever)
I always see things I want to read; but when
I sit down to look at a newspaper I can't find
anything of the slightest interest?

2011-12-30T00:00:00.001-05:00

But in the end one needs more
courage to live than to kill himself.

-Albert Camus

2011-12-29T00:00:00.001-05:00

I could gladly and profitably set
myself down and spend all the rest
of my life just with Calvin.

-Karl Barth

2011-12-28T00:00:00.001-05:00

It's hard to be nostalgic when you
can't remember anything.

2011-12-27T00:00:00.001-05:00

pablo picasso

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

-T. S. Eliot

2011-12-26T09:09:00.000-05:00

It is well to lie fallow for awhile.

-Martin Tupper

2011-12-25T00:00:00.001-05:00

raphael

Jesus Lord at thy birth.

-Silent Night

2011-12-24T08:20:00.001-05:00

O come, let us adore him.

-Latin hymn

2011-12-23T00:00:00.001-05:00

Invest ten minutes a day and read the entire
Bible in 2012. Right now resolve, as a follower
of the Lord Jesus Christ, to be renewed in the spirit
of your mind by daily attending to that which is
breathed out by God and profitable for teaching,
for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, that the child of God may be
complete, equipped for every good work.

Click here to begin.

2011-12-22T00:00:00.002-05:00

To shorten winter, borrow some
money due in spring.

-W. J. Vogel

2011-12-21T00:00:00.001-05:00

There's no place like home.

-Dorothy Gale

2011-12-20T00:00:00.002-05:00

A pleasure is full grown only
when it is remembered.

-C. S. Lewis

2011-12-19T00:00:00.003-05:00

tomie depaola

Love all. Trust a few.
Do wrong to none.

-William Shakespeare

2011-12-18T00:00:00.001-05:00

vincent van gogh

I believe in Christianity as I believe
that the sun has risen. Not only
because I see it, but because by it
I see everything else.

-C. S. Lewis

2011-12-17T00:00:00.003-05:00

The whole secret of life is to be
interested in one thing profoundly
and a thousand things well.

-Horace Walpole

2011-12-16T10:09:00.000-05:00

I became a journalist partly so that i wouldn't
have to rely on the press for my information.

-Christopher Hitchens

2011-12-16T00:00:00.002-05:00

henry siddons mowbray (1858-1928)

Wise men talk because they have
something to say; fools, because
they have to say something.

-Plato

2011-12-15T00:00:00.002-05:00

Red is the color that
will make me blue.

-Beatles, Yes It Is

2011-12-14T00:00:00.003-05:00

giotto di bondone, 1304

This is the story of how we begin
to remember.

-Paul Simon, Under African Skies

2011-12-13T00:00:00.001-05:00

You're never fully dressed without
a smile.

-Annie

2011-12-12T00:00:00.002-05:00

Hither by thy help I'm come.

-Robert Robertson, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

2011-12-11T00:00:00.002-05:00

None can stay His hand
or say to Him, "what have
you done?"

-Daniel 4:35

2011-12-10T00:00:00.004-05:00

Without your love I'd be nowhere
at all; I'd be lost, if not for you.

-George Harrison, If Not For You

2011-12-09T00:00:00.000-05:00

I would so live as if I knew that I received
my being only for the benefit of others.

-Seneca

2011-12-08T00:00:00.001-05:00

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow
has a special quality.

-Andy Goldsworthy

2011-12-07T00:00:00.001-05:00

The greater man, the greater
courtesy.

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

2011-12-06T00:00:00.001-05:00

william bouguereau

If men were angels, no government
would be necessary.

-James Madison

2011-12-05T00:00:00.002-05:00

Cheer up! The worst is yet
to come.

-Philander Johnson

2011-12-04T00:00:00.001-05:00

Clothe yourselves, all of you,
with humility towards one
another.

-1 Peter 5:5

2011-12-03T00:00:00.002-05:00

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

-Will Rogers

2011-12-02T00:00:00.002-05:00

mark rothko

It is better to fail in
originality than to
succeed in imitation.

-Herman Melville

2011-12-01T00:00:00.002-05:00

"Be yourself" is about the worst
advice you can give to some people.

-Tom Masson

2011-11-30T00:00:00.002-05:00

Drama is life with the dull bits
cut out.

-Alfred Hitchcock

2011-11-29T00:00:00.001-05:00

I want to put a ding in the universe.

-Steve Jobs

2011-11-28T00:00:00.001-05:00

A rich man is nothing but a poor
man with money.

-W. C. Fields

2011-11-27T00:00:00.002-05:00

gustave dore

Sin entered the world through one
man, and death through sin, and in
this way death came to all people,
because all sinned.

-Romans 5:12

2011-11-26T00:00:00.001-05:00

The public demands certainties,
but there are no certainties.

-H. L. Mencken

2011-11-25T00:00:00.006-05:00

amedeo modigliani

Eloquence is a painting of
the thoughts.

-Blaise Pascal

2011-11-24T00:00:00.001-05:00

My cooking is so bad my kids
thought Thanksgiving was to
commemorate Pearl Harbor.

-Phyllis Diller

2011-11-23T00:00:00.002-05:00

The more you explain it,
the more I don't understand it.

-Mark Twain

2011-11-22T00:00:00.002-05:00

A good novel tells us the truth about
its hero. A bad novel tells us the truth
about its author.

-G. K. Chesterton

2011-11-21T08:07:00.000-05:00

She got her looks from her father.
He's a plastic surgeon.

-Groucho Marx

2011-11-20T00:00:00.001-05:00

Let us kneel before the Lord
our Maker.

-Psalm 95:6

2011-11-19T08:25:00.000-05:00

Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.

-Woody Allen

2011-11-18T00:00:00.004-05:00

The buck stops here.

-Harry S. Truman

2011-11-17T00:00:00.002-05:00

Someday we'll look back at this moment
and plow into a parked car.

-Evan Davis

2011-11-16T00:00:00.000-05:00

I don't paint things. I only paint
the differences between things.

-Henri Matisse

2011-11-15T08:26:00.000-05:00

Happiness is a very small desk
and a very big wastebasket.

-Robert Orben

2011-11-14T00:00:00.001-05:00

I didn't get old on purpose, it just
happened. If you're lucky, it could
happen to you.

-Andy Rooney

2011-11-13T00:00:00.001-05:00

Simon Peter answered him,
"Lord, to whom shall we go?
You have the words of eternal
life."

-John 6:68

2011-11-12T00:00:00.002-05:00

john singer sargent

There is but one art, to omit.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

2011-11-11T00:00:00.006-05:00

It's what you learn after you know
it all that counts.

-Earl Weaver

2011-11-10T00:00:00.002-05:00

Let us be grateful to the mirror for
revealing to us our appearance only.

-Samuel Butler

2011-11-09T00:00:00.007-05:00

nicora gangi

The world will never starve for

want of wonders, but only for

want of wonder.

-G. K. Chesterton

2011-11-08T00:00:00.001-05:00

Oh that man would converse with God!

-William Blake

2011-11-07T08:48:00.003-05:00

He who has a why to live for
can bear almost any how.

-Frederich Nietzsche

2011-11-06T00:00:00.002-04:00

microscopic pollen

He upholds the universe
by the word of his power.

-Hebrews 1:3

2011-11-05T00:00:00.000-04:00

bernardus johannes blommers

Poor and content is rich,
and rich enough.

-William Shakespeare

2011-11-04T00:00:00.003-04:00

happy birthday lowen

The older the fiddler,
the sweeter the tune.

-English proverb

2011-11-03T00:00:00.001-04:00

It takes too much energy to be against
something unless it's really important.

-Madeleine L'Engle

2011-11-02T00:00:00.001-04:00

That's not writing, that's typing.

-Truman Capote (on Jack Kerouac)

2011-11-01T00:00:00.002-04:00

Success makes a fool seem wise.

-H. G. Bohn

2011-10-31T00:00:00.003-04:00

rene magritte

I've been trying for some time to develop
a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

-Garry Trudeau

2011-10-30T00:00:00.002-04:00

From all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise.

-Isaac Watts

2011-10-29T00:00:00.001-04:00

If a woman has to choose between catching
a fly ball and saving a kid's life, she will
choose to save the kid's life without even
considering if there are men on base.

-Dave Barry

2011-10-28T00:00:00.001-04:00

There is no abstract art. You must always
start with something. Afterward you can
remove all traces of reality.

-Pablo Picasso

2011-10-27T00:00:00.000-04:00

The best car safety device is a rear
view mirror with a cop in it.

-Dudley Moore

2011-10-26T00:00:00.005-04:00

8Half of the people on earth live

in cities.
8It's the white of the egg that smells

like sulphur, not the yolk.
8Since 1900 the average global
temperature increase has been
about one degree.

2011-10-25T00:00:00.001-04:00

jessee wilcox smith

Man cannot live by bread alone;
he must have peanut butter.

-James A. Garfield

2011-10-24T00:00:00.000-04:00

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul.

-George Bernard Shaw