painting quotes on canvas

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. ~David A. Daniel



The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald



Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology



Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~Leo Rosten



I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ~Claes Oldenburg



Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~Ann Landers



Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox



A simple and irrefutable argument to knock creationism on its ass: (1) Humans are a mistake - subproof: opposable thumbs and enlarged brain capacity are the combined number one factor in the increasingly speedy destruction of planet Earth. (2) God doesn't make mistakes. (3) Therefore, God couldn't have created people. ~Cassus Garrulitas



Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ~Proverbs 25:14



No man was ever wise by chance. ~Seneca



A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett



Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ~Seneca



Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. ~Buddha



Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. ~Peter S. Prescott



What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb



But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819



The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. ~Leigh Hunt