I love crayons—especially new crayons with no broken tips. I love how they smell—and how smooth they feel between my fingers. I love imagining what marvelous pictures the crayons will create. But what I love most of all are the colors—so many colors. – Mary Wince
No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds… – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966
