All Occasion Cards

All Occasion Card 737a- was $3.50, now $3.00
There is no such thing as a normal cat. They're all screwballs.
D. Williams (b.1950)

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All Occasion Card 736 - was $2.95, now $2.00
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Photo: Duane Monczewski

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All Occasion Card 733 - was $2.95, now $2.00
There is always someone ready to mess up your hard work.
Dog (b.1943)

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All Occasion Card 731 - was $2.95, now $2.00
If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would fall from the sky..
Old proverb

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All Occasion Card 728 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Feelin' good is good enough for me.
Kris Kristofferson (b.1936) and Fred Foster (b.1931)

Photo: Nishan Nalbandian

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All Occasion Card 725a- was $3.50, now $3.00
Love: to let it in is to give it.
Mark Montague (b.1941)

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All Occasion Card 716 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Man smart. Woman smarter.
Norman (King Radio) Span

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All Occasion Card 711 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868-1930)

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All Occasion Card 709 - was $2.95, now $2.00

Cock your hat. Angles are attitude.
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)

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All Occasion Card 695a- was $3.50, now $3.00
Love stories never end.
Hemingway was wrong.*

Photo: Grace Robertson

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All Occasion Card 686 - was $2.95, now $2.00

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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All Occasion Card 666 - was $2.95, now $2.00

Live all you can. It's a mistake not to.
Henry James (1843-1916)

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All Occasion Card 662a- was $3.50, now $3.00
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Old maxim

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All Occasion Card 660 - was $2.95, now $2.00

I was wise enough to never grow up, while fooling other people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

 

Photo: Grace Robertson

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All Occasion Card 653 - was $2.95, now $2.00

We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, and disorderly old age.
Don Marquis (1878-1937)

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All Occasion Card 652 - was $2.95, now $2.00

The world lay before me - like an open trap door.
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999)

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All Occasion Card 643 - was $2.95, now $2.00
The future is in good hands: look at the ends of your arms.

Photo: Mark M. Baldwin

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All Occasion Card 640 - was $2.95, now $2.00

Keeping track of what I say just confuses me.
Montague Baldwin (b.1941)

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All Occasion Card 630 - was $2.95, now $2.00
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret for staying young.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Before Oscar Wilde became a playwright he was, in today’s phrase, famous for being famous. He shocked the Victorian sensibility with his astounding opinion that the pursuit of beauty and pleasure was far more important than moral ethics and duty.

In the 1926 photo, shot in Washington DC by an unknown photographer, are Elaine Griggs, Virginia Hunter, Mary Kaminsky, Dorothy Kelly, and Hazel Brown.

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All Occasion Card 628 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Our professional life has been a long shameless exercise in avoidance.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White (1899-1985)

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All Occasion Card 625 - was $2.95, now $2.00
I think, therefore I'm single.
Lizz Winstead (b.1961)

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All Occasion Card 623 - was $2.95, now $2.00
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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All Occasion Card 616 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Looking for love in all the wrong places.
Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)

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All Occasion Card 614 - was $2.95, now $2.00
You're my buddy, and I know you didn't do it.

Photo: Mark Chester

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All Occasion Card 606 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Don't worry. Be happy.
Meher Baba (1894-1969) Nuns like to have a little fun. These ladies found it in the surf at Grayland, Washington in 1960.

Meher Baba was a spiritual figure who was known for his forty-five year silence, for the celebrities who followed him (from Talulah Bankhead to Boris Karloff), and for his famous saying, "Don't worry, be happy."

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All Occasion Card 599 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Your friends may be nuts, but they're rooting for you.

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All Occasion Card 597 - was $2.95, now $2.00
The supply of good women far exceeds that of men who deserve them.
Robert Graves (1895-1985)

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All Occasion Card 596 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

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All Occasion Card 593 - was $2.95, now $2.00
This is the strangest life I have ever known.
Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

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All Occasion Card 587a- was $3.50, now $3.00
I have decided to be happy, because it is good for my health.
Voltaire (1694-1778)

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All Occasion Card 586 - was $2.95, now $2.00
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave for fifteen minutes.
James Randi (b.1928)

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All Occasion Card 579 - was $2.95, now $2.00
You give me what I need... respect, affection, and the occasional sandwich.

Photo: Mark M. Baldwin

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All Occasion Card 575a- was $3.50, now $3.00

Don't go out expecting to find happiness.
Bring it with you.
Tone Downer (1920-2016)

Tone Downer, a beloved neighbor of ours, didn't just talk about bringing the fun with him - he was the fun, wherever he went.

These three ladies may have brought their fun with them, or perhaps they found it on a ride at the Festival Fun Fair in Battersea Park. Did they win those identical straw hats at a game of chance?

Haywood Magee shot this photograph for Picture Post magazine (the English equivalent of Life magazine) on a June day in 1951.

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All Occasion Card 552 - was $2.95, now $2.00
I never wanted to be a millionaire,
just to live like one.
Walter Hagen (1892-1969)

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All Occasion Card 551 - was $2.95, now $2.00
After a certain age every birthday is a triumph.
Old Chinese proverb

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All Occasion Card 550 - was $2.95, now $2.00
It's not the men in your life, it's the life in your men.
Mae West (1893-1980)

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All Occasion Card 542 - was $2.95, now $2.00
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

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All Occasion Card 540 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Women don't retire, they just keep on cooking.

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All Occasion Card 536 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

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All Occasion Card 527a- was $3.50, now $3.00
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras (1928-2001)   Photo: Sumner W. Fowler

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All Occasion Card 526 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Life is the only game in which the object is to learn the rules.
Ashleigh Brilliant (b.1933)

Photo: Mark M. Baldwin

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All Occasion Card 521 - was $2.95, now $2.00
I thought I'd wake up famous,
but I only woke up late.

Photo: Dede Johnson

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All Occasion Card 516 - was $2.95, now $2.00
I am because we are.
Translation of the Zulu word "ubuntu"

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All Occasion Card 495 - was $2.95, now $2.00
Maturity is a phase.
Adolescence is forever.

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All Occasion Card 491 - was $2.95, now $2.00
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike (Sir Terence Alan) Milligan (1918-2002)

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All Occasion Card 476 - was $2.95, now $2.00
If you haven't anything nice to say about anyone, come sit by me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

Photo: Shoshannah White

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All Occasion Card 470a- was $3.50, now $3.00
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane (1861-1928)

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All Occasion Card 442a- was $3.50, now $3.00
Joy is not in things;
it is in us.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Bert Hardy, a giant of British documentary photography, shot this image on the Blackpool Promenade with a cheap Brownie box camera to illustrate his belief that an expensive camera is not required to take good pictures. He proved his point by capturing the beauty of high spirits and enthusiastic friendship on that breezy summer day at the seaside. His everyday camera was a Leica 35mm, which had not yet become the standard among his contemporary photojournalists in the mid-twentieth century who still shot in the 4 x 5 format.

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All Occasion Card 422b- was $3.95, now $3.50

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford (1863–1947)

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