Posted on May 3, 2023 “As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.”—Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853-1890
Posted on February 18, 2023 “The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”—(‘Much Ado About Nothing’), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616
Posted on February 17, 2023 “Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973
Posted on February 12, 2023 “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”—John Donne, English poet, 1572-1631
Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 “The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.”—Fanny Burney, English satirical novelist, 1752-1840
Posted on December 17, 2022December 20, 2022 “He that hath no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”—Thomas Fuller, English physician, 1654-1734
Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 “Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply.’ But not in those words.”—Woody Allen, American film director, 1935–
Posted on November 13, 2022 “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.”—Jane Wagner, American writer, 1935–
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