Velvet put-downs: He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. -Abraham Lincoln-

Velvet put-downs: His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. -Mae West-

Velvet put-downs: He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -Winston Churchill-

Velvet put-downs: He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. -Forrest Tucker-

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. -C. S. Lewis-

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -Albert Einstein-

When church begins, turn off your mobile phone that God can call you. -St. Joseph Freinademetz Chapel, Divine Word University-

Velvet put-downs: He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. -Robert Redford-

I don’t deal in facts, only delusions. When you work with facts everyone will try to point out where you are wrong. If you tell them up front you only work with delusions, then you can’t possibly be called wrong.

Elephants and donkeys never fought until politics came along.