i miss you dad poems

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom



The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~Oscar Wilde



If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson



Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul. ~Bruce Bawer, The Advocate, 28 April 1998



Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. ~Franklin P. Jones



Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. ~George Burns



You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis



Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist. ~Author Unknown



Worry is rust upon the blade. ~Henry Ward Hughes



I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ~Groucho Marx



A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you. ~Author Unknown



Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown



Maxim: a concisely expressed principle or rule of conduct, or a statement of a general truth; a saying of proverbial nature.



If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic. ~Jack Handey



I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln



It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard



Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author Unknown



If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. ~F. Wikzek