for him poems

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. ~Lois Wyse



Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ~Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, translated by Philemon Holland



You couldn't fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine! ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. ~Arthur Conan Doyle



The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale



Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter



Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are. ~Author Unknown



Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~Ouida



Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams. ~Milan Kundera



I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898



Everything in life is luck. ~Donald Trump



Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap. ~Marion C. Garretty



If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown



Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ~Eric Hoffer



Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. ~Theodore Roosevelt



Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead. ~Susan Catherine



Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley



Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ~Ambrose Bierce