poems for him

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta. ~Dave Barry



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



Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis



Remember, if you�re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke



Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. ~Paul Hornung



People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life. ~Robert Towne



I don't have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without caffeine! ~Author Unknown



Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi



The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted. ~Andre Gide



Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981



What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan



If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey



Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. ~Bion, "Water and Land Animals," Plutarch



The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr



The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. ~Author Unknown



The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. ~Dorothy Dix



Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov



Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself. ~From a Winston advertisement