happy fathers day poems

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ~Orson Rega Card



Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ~H.L. Mencken



You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. ~Mary Manin Morrissey



Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb



The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~Author Unknown



Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones



To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. ~Cary Grant



If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau



By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~Author Unknown



Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams



I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ~Peter DeVries



Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia



Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers." ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50



Evolution is individual - devolution is collective. ~Martin H. Fischer



Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ~Howard Mumford Jones Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ~John Gunther



When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. ~Eric Hoffer



Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925