poems for baby boy

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata" (Thanks Tom) Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. ~Maimonides



I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. ~Henry Ford



A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ~Author Unknown



Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis



For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. ~Millard Fuller



Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table



How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou



Some people always sigh in thanking God. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ~Dawn Fraser



Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine



He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ~Henry David Thoreau



Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954



Not savages? and what else are we, I ask you? We are worse savages than the Australian bushmen, since possessing the knowledge of our savagery, we persist in it. ~"The Mission," Chapter 6



Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau



The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton



Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? ~David Brin



People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life. ~Robert Towne



Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain



Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist



Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. ~Anne Gibbons