poems for dummies

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. ~James A. Garfield



The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ~A.P. Herbert



The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. ~Samuel Johnson



Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. ~Li Ka Shing



Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time. ~Author Unknown



America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. ~Bobcat Goldthwaite



Breast milk is better than any udder milk! ~Author Unknown



The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. ~Elbert Hubbard



A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. ~"Fats" Domino



Where is the good in goodbye? ~Meredith Willson, The Music Man



Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. ~Louis Kossuth



There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. ~Art Buchwald



The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~W.H. Auden The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison



Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Declaration of Rights"



Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce



I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ~Diane Ford



I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command. ~Francesco Petrarch



Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. ~Christian Furchtegott Gellert



We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." ~Sidney J. Harris



Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. ~Lyndon B. Johnson