poems for teachers appreciation

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly



Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. ~Martin H. Fischer



Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown



Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. ~Author Unknown



For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. ~Hunter S. Thompson



The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. ~Benjamin Franklin



The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. ~John Taylor



Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette



Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast. ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds



The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~Voltaire



The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody." ~Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman



God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward



Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. ~Edward Somers



Nothing that is complete breathes. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White



There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. ~Mike Penner, Los Angeles Times



America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ~Georges Clemenceau



Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing



People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon