poems for fathers day

The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world? ~Denis Johnston, The Brazen Horn



It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger



I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. ~Author Unknown



Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks



Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. ~Kate Clinton



Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ~Martin H. Fischer



To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. ~Author Unknown



Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886



Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven



We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss. ~Charles de Lint



Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand



The geography of my heart has hills of desire and valleys and meadows of love - for both men and women - a single day's trek passes through it all. ~Agave Powers



The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans. ~Author Unknown



I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson



Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus



The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. ~George Ade, Forty Modern Fables



Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. ~A.J.P. Taylor



Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin