poems for fathers day

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ~Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)



Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~Caryn Leschen



Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850



There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. ~Josh Billings



Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets



Humor is reason gone mad. ~Groucho Marx



Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. ~Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski



Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ~Salvador Dali



Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. ~Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Journey to the Center of the Earth



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



I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one. Halfway down the birth canal we're already enjoying the view. ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve



I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~Mae West



I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ~John Wayne



Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Books are embalmed minds. ~Bovee



Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~Lowell Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~Lowell



Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure. ~Harvard Lamphoon, "Doon" (paraphrase)



Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud