funny valentines day poems for kids

A question asked in a Surrey school exam went: "Why do cocks crow early every morning?" A twelve-year-old replied: "My dad says they have to make the most of it while the hens are asleep." ~Quoted in the Peterborough Daily Telegraph, 1983



Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here? ~Brock Fiant



What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud



The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. ~R.D. Laing



Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather



Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life. ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003



I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres



Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have. ~Christopher Morley



If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity. ~Abraham Lincoln, address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, 22 February 1842



When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro



A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown



All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen. ~Author Unknown



It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field



Skipping gives the adult a well-deserved break and lets the inner child be in charge for a while. ~Opal Montagne



Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown



'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. ~Victor Lownes, Playboy, 1985



Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali



Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. ~Steve Prefontaine