Sunday, April 17, 2011

poems for dad from daughter

poems for dad from daughter





poems for dad from daughter poems for dad from daughter poems for dad from daughter



poems for dad from daughter poems for dad from daughter poems for dad from daughter







Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne



We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881



God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ~Imamu Amiri Baraka



For the rubble of history, which is undigested and therefore goes on blindly, does not lie so thickly on the ground as in our own consciousness. ~Herbert Luthy



All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. ~V.V. Rozanov



This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson



It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. ~Mark Twain, Christmas greeting, 1890



What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound



When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney



To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler



Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. ~Archibald MacLeish



What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin! ~Author Unknown



There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~G.K. Chesterton



Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. ~Carlton J.H. Hayes



Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie



Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ~Matthew 6:19-21



Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

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