• All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ~ Lord Kelvin
• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ~ Josh Billings
• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. ~ Sir William Temple
• By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.~ John Rutledge
• Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~ Josh Billings
• Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. ~ W. B. Yeats
• Every man stamps his value on himself… man is made great or small by its own will. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
• Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. ~ Charles De Gaulle
• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ~ Anne Germain De Stael
• If we can’t stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. ~ Evelyn Waugh
• I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ~ Henry David Thoreau
• I like to collect experiences the way other people like to collect coins and stamps. ~ Michael McGuire
• I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better. ~ William Wycherley
• Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark…~ Orison Swett Marden
• My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
• Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ~ Charles Baudelaire
• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. ~ Andre Maurois
• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. ~ Napoleon Hill
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ~ Benito Mussolini
• We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead. ~ J. Edward Day
• When an elderly woman was asked why she was standing in line to buy stamps from a teller when she could have used a stamp machine she replied: The machine won’t ask me about my arthritis! ~ Author Unknown

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