life and love poems

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862



Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra



The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. ~Ecclesiastes 1:9



I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills. ~Author Unknown



Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar



The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary. ~An English Lord Chief Justice, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy



Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. ~George Santayana



There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945



Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton



Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926



Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf



Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~Author unknown, from a Washington Post word contest



People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ~Voltaire



A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop, Fables



Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. ~Kin Hubbard