poems for kids in english

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ~William Drummond, Academical Questions



In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. ~Henry Brooke



The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ~Peter Berger



A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown



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



Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. ~Walter Lippmann



Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda



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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ~F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms



Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris



The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ~George Miller



Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate? ~Author Unknown



The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle



Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb



I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson



Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. ~Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969



When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ~Samuel Johnson



People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. ~Ogden Nash



There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com