Inspirational

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Do Nothing. Flowers Bloom, Grass Grows By Itself

The Past is History, the Future is a Mystery, this Moment is a Gift- that's why it's called The Present.

To Live a Creative Life, we must Lose our Fear of Being Wrong.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Yeats

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a method of traveling.

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Live like there is no tomorrow, Sing as if no one can hear, Love like you have never been hurt, Dance as if nobody is watching, Laugh like no one is listening.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased, nor is it etched in stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart- and there it shall remain forever.

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. -Walt Whitman

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There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Ghandi

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. - Brenda Ueland

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.~ Rachel Carson

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

There are Two Ways of Spreading the Light: to be the Candle, or the Mirror that Reflects it.

Home, Family and Friends     top

A House is a Home when it Shelters the Body and Comforts the Soul.

Like branches on a tree, our lives grow in different directions, but our roots remain firmly planted.

If you’re lucky enough to live (in the mountains, at the beach, on the lake etc) ...then you’re lucky enough!

Life is better at the beach.

A friend is someone who knows us, but loves us anyway.

There’s no place like home...

Love is like a butterfly, it gently goes where it pleases and pleases where it goes.

Our family is like a patchwork quilt, with kindness gently sewn, each piece is an original with beauty of its own.

Friends Are Great Big Hugs From God

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be...

Go Often to the House of a Friend, for Weeds Choke an Unused Path. -Emerson

True love is not based on what you have, but it is based on who you really are

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Bless This House with Love and Laughter

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Friends are Flowers that Never Fade Away

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love, and to be loved in return.

We give our children two things. One is roots, and the other is wings.

Having a Place to Go is Home. Having Someone to Love is Family. Having Both is a Blessing

May All Who Enter Our Home as Guests Leave as Friends

Our family’s like a patchwork quilt with kindness gently sewn, each piece is an original with beauty of its own.

May Our Home Know Joy - Each Room Hold Laughter - Every Window Open to Great Possibilities

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Family and Friends, Far and Near, Welcome Home, Welcome Here

A House is a Home when it Shelters the Body and Comforts the Soul.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welcome to our Home

It is Magnificent to Grow Older, if One Keeps Young While Doing It

Humorous     top

It's 5 0'clock somewhere!

We buy junk and sell Antiques

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

Smile; it's the second best thing you can do with your lips

Good judgment comes from experience. And experience comes from bad judgment.

Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals- except, of course, the weasel. -H. Simpson

A house without a cat, a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title? ~Mark Twain

Instant gratification takes too long!

Life is nothing like the brochure

What if the hokey pokey really is what it’s all about?

Feel free to use anything, except my spouse & my toothbrush...I mean it about the toothbrush.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory

I’m a Good Egg- Just a Little Cracked and Scrambled

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something. -Mitch Hedberg

Please God - if you can’t make me thin...make my friends fat!!

Lord, help my words be tender and gracious today, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

To Golf (or Fish, Party, Sail etc) , or Not to Golf: What a Stupid Question!

I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not sure.

Dogs Laugh With Their Tails

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Mirror, mirror on the wall...what the heck happened?

Many have eaten here...Few have died.

How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

Religious     top

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men! Luke 2:14

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on your heart

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -Hebrews 11:1

The Goal of our Instruction is Love, from a Pure Heart, and a Good Conscience, and a Sincere Faith .-I Timothy 1:6

O taste and See that the Lord is Good.  -Psalm 34:8

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver........ Proverbs 25:11

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. ~John 3:16

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. ~Psalm 119:133

The Fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control....

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ~Joshua 24:15

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him ~Psalm 34:8

I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. ~Philippians 4:13

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware- Hebrews 13:2

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Cor. 13: 7,9

The Lord is good to all: and His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalm 145:9

Do everything without complaining or arguing. Philip. 2:14

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Jesus said, "All things can be done for the one who believes."  Mark 9:23

To Everything There is a Season, and a Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven. ~Ecc 3:1

Be Exalted, O God, Above the Heavens; let your Glory be over All the Earth.

A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. ~ Ecc. 8:15

I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. -John 15

This is the day the Lord hath made; Rejoice and be glad in it. -Psalm 118, 24-27

The heavens tell of the glory of God. The skies display His glorious craftsmanship. Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make Him known. -Psalm 19:1-2

Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. ~Matthew 25:40

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful reasures. ~Proverbs 24:3-4

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'move from here to there' and it will move. Matthew 17:20

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. -I Corinthians 10:31

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him ~Psalm 34:8

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. ~John 3:16

Jesus said: “All things can be done for the one who believes.” - Mark 9:23

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. - John 15:12

For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou art my trust from my youth. ~ Psalms 71:5

In everything give Thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. -1 Thessalonians 5:18

O taste and See that the Lord is Good -Psalm 34:8

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I had holy plans for you. ~Jeremiah 1:5

We lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days.- W.C. Fields

Kitchen and Laundry     top A world without chocolate is filled with darkness and chaos.

Life is a Glorious Banquet, a Limitless, Delicious Buffet!

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Food and Wine is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit

Good Food Gladdens the Heart.

Eat, Drink, and be Merry!

Friendships Develop over Food and Wine

First Food, Then Fun!

Approach Love and Cooking with Reckless Abandon

When Coffee Dreams, it Dreams of Chocolate

A skinny cook can't be trusted!

If you accept a dinner invitation, you have a moral obligation to be amusing.

Good Friends, Fine Wine, and Something with Garlic

Dinner will be ready when the smoke alarm goes off

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw

Normal around here is just a setting on the dryer

waschen lessive lavaggio laundry lavanderia  ("Laundry" in various languages)

Normal around here is just a setting on the dryer (washing machine)

sort...wash...dry...fold...REPEAT!!!

--- LAUNDRY ZONE ---

ABSOLUTLEY NO IRONING ALLOWED!

Soap Powder 5 cents

Laundry Gathers Here

Everything Comes out in the Wash

Laundry Room: Drop Your Pants Here

When I said "I Do" I didn’t mean Laundry

Laundry is for the birds!

Wine and Food     top Popular Wines, just delete ones you don't want!Blanc de Noir - Bordeaux - Brut - Cabernet Sauvignon - Chardonnay - Chenin Blanc - Carignane - French Colombard - Fumé Blanc - Gewurztraminer - Grenache - Rosé - Johannisberg Riesling - Meritage - Merlot - Muscat - Pinot Noir - Semillon - Syrah - ZinfandelNote the é characters won't preview, but will be included in your finished copy.

Wine is like love... when the right one comes along, you know it.

True wine enthusiasts don’t collect wines. They collect memories of wines shared with friends and family. -Dario Zucconi

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. - Clifton Fadiman

I love cooking with wine...sometimes I even put it in the food!

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.- Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl. - Fortune cookie

Life is too short to drink bad wine

Let me fix you a martini that's pure magic.It may not make life's problems disappear, but it'll certainly reduce their size. -Dean Martin

Good Food, Good Wine, Good Friends, Good Times

In Vino Veritas  (In wine we trust)

Pets   top

It’s NOT Just a Dog

Try to be the person your dog thinks you are.

Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things

A Dog Always Offer Unconditional Love. A Cat has to Think About It.

What Hair?

It’s Cool to Drool!

Goldens and Poodles and Yorkies...oh my!

Life Takes Dogs

It’s a dogs life. Make it a good one.

Life’s Short- Pet Hard

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Foreign Language     top Note the é è and ê characters won't preview, but will be included in your finished copy.

L'ingrédient secret est chocolat. (The secret ingredient is chocolate-French)

L'amour est meilleur que le vin. (Love is better than wine-French)

Laissez les bons temps rouler! (Let the good times roll! French)

La vie est belle...profiter de chaque moment. (Life is beautiful... enjoy each moment.-French)

Vivre, aimer, rire...le bonheur, quoi! (To live, love, laugh... is happiness!-French)

Vive Bene, Spesso L'amore, Di Risata Molto. (Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much-Italian)

Buon Appetito!  Bon Appétit! Guten Appetit! (Good Appetite, Italian, French and German)

Cead Mile Failte (One hundred thousand welcomes- Gaelic)

Joie de Vivre  (Joy of Life- French)

Children and Babies   top

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. ~Dr. Seuss

Among the world's most treasured gifts, among its most precious pearls (joys), God smiles upon the earth and gives us little girls (boys)

Days are the sunniest...jokes are the funniest...rabbits are the bunnyiest...everywhere I go! Puppies are the cutiest...treasure is the lootiest...horns are the tootiest...everywhere I go!

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

Babies fill a hole in your heart you never knew existed.

The first steps a baby takes are into your heart.

Star Light, Star Bright, First Star I See Tonight. I Wish I May, I Wish I Might, Have the Wish I Wish Tonight

Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow Jumped over the Moon, The Little Dog Laughed to See Such Sport, and the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon.

Shoot for the Moon. Even if You Miss, You’ll Land Among the Stars.

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice. That's What Little Girls are Made Of.

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails. That's What Little Boys are Made Of.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. ~James Barrie

From small beginnings come great things.

The angels danced the day you were born.

I see the moon, the moon sees me. God bless the moon, and God bless me.

Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd; buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root, for the Home Team, if they don't win it's a shame, for it's one, two, three strikes, you're out at the old ball game.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. -Dr. Seuss

Twinkle twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky.

I love you all the way to the moon and back again

Gurgles and Giggles

A Brand New Someone to Love

Ten Tiny Toes and One Button Nose

Heaven sent, please handle with care

Little Feet, so Rich with Charm, may you Never Come to Harm.

As I bend and proudly blow laughter out of every toe, this pray, that God above shall protect you with His love, and shall guide those little feet safely down life's broader street.

Like Stardust Glistening on Fairies’ Wings, Little Girls Dreams Are of Magical Things.

Popsicle Kisses and Big Bear Hugs,Little Boy Trains and Jars Full of Bugs.

Dance-Music-Art   top

To Live a Creative Life, we must Lose our Fear of Being Wrong.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Picasso

Medicine heals the body....Music heals the soul

Bach gave us God’s word. Mozart gave us God’s laughter. Beethovan gave us God’s fire. God gave us music that we might pray without words.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

To dance is to be out of yourself

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made

Remember,Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels

Bach Beethoven Chopin Debussy Mozart Handel Haydn Schubert Tchaikovsky