happy mothers day poems
Feeling down? Saddle up. ~Author Unknown
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ~Calvin Coolidge
Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. ~Princess Anne of Great Britain
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ~Jack Handey
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thanks, George)
The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ~Salman Rushdie
I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk. ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. ~Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? ~John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1815
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. ~Frank Sinatra
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. ~Hendrik Willem van Loon
Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown
Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ~Astrid Alauda
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett
The days a man spends fishing or spends hunting should not be deducted from the time that he's on earth. In other words, if I fish today, that should be added to the amount of time I get to live. That's the way I look at recreation. That's why I'll be a big conservation, environmental President, because I plan to fish and hunt as much as I possibly can. ~George Bush, quoted in Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1988
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