missing you poems for him

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu



One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster



Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!



Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ~H.L. Mencken



Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper



Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com



I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~Author Unknown



Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan



They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway



If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown



Thou art to me a delicious torment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"



Breastfeeding is nature's health plan. ~Author Unknown



Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage



There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory (thanks Harold)



I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999



Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion



The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. ~Elliot Chaze



A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Adams



A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Happiness is a warm puppy. ~Charles M. Schulz