poems for death

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ~William Ralph Inge



Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580 Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease. ~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action



What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Sudden acquaintance brings repentance. ~Thomas Fuller



We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. ~Will Rogers



Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Martensson



Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic



I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988



There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. ~James Reston



The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin



Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. ~Kin Hubbard



Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers. ~Author Unknown



There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. ~Steve Martin There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? ~Peter Andrews



Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. ~Author Unknown



There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. ~Dan Devine, former Notre Dame football coach



Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb



Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26 Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. ~Colette, Gigi, 1944, translated



The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. ~D.H. Lawrence



We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? ~Morris Adler