funny fathers day poems

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams



Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross



Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down. ~John W. Gardner



Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay, Machiavelli



We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity," Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975



To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey



If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw



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



Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~George Bernard Shaw



Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. ~James Weldon Johnson



There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. ~Guy Almes



Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau



Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings



Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners. ~William Shakespeare



Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship... and the absence of dogs. ~Val Schaffner



Peace be to you, fear not. ~Genesis 43:23



A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966