poems for friends forever

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ~Max Planck, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949



Your picture's in my wallet and I'm sitting on it. And if that isn't love, I don't know what is. ~Frank Burns



The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself. ~Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995



Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~Doug Larson



I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton



The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII



Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. ~Joann Thomas



And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson



Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. ~Benjamin Franklin Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman



They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. ~Joan McIntosh



Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps. ~Author Unknown



Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia



Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats



If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack



An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown



Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.... ~Thomas De Quincey



The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. ~Alban Goodier



Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~Braveheart