poems for cousins

Born to golf. Forced to work. ~Author Unknown



We don't stop at our skin. ~Dolores Krieger, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine



Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864



If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson



The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Take the time to come home to yourself every day. ~Robin Casarjean



Firefighting is all about ass - busting ours to save yours. ~Author Unknown



Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that. ~Charles R. Swindoll



Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson



One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. ~Lemony Snicket



Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ~Alfred Hitchcock



I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. ~Mignon McLaughlin



A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa



If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events. ~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart



The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. ~Author Unknown