rhyming poems for haters

It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A family is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown



Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters



Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss



Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ~G.K. Chesterton



There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~Maya Angelou, PBS, 28 March 1988



If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ~Lenny Bruce



Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~Richard Lamm



Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. ~Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996



As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes



Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell



We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence



Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. ~Katherine Mansfield



Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer



It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841



Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th. ~Author Unknown



Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw



Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. ~Richard Kemph



My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ~Orson Welles



Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton