teachers day poems

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer



A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~The Talmud



Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now? ~Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.



Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. ~E.M. Cioran



Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard



Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. ~Llewelyn Powys



Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. ~Tom Walsh



The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren



Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ~Branch Rickey



No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps. ~Charles F. Mullett



The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness. ~Patricia Dale-Green



Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie



Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb



I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth



It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland



Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals



On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of conservatism. ~Barry Goldwater



Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved. ~Susan Diane Murphree



They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin