arthur rimbaud poems

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel. ~Ira Berkow



Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin



You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes



Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~Alfred Billings Street



Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown



Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. ~Ringo Starr



The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal



Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. ~Proverbs 13:12



The last Christian died on the cross. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts



When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown



Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. ~Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959



You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. ~C.A.R. Hoare



Needlepoint: the delicious art of filling in holes with wool. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus



Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. ~Erwin Knoll



You never know what you've got until it's gone. ~Author Unknown



A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. ~C.J.J. Mullen



To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ~George Eliot