poems for new year

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ~Marie Laurencin



What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964



The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims



One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. ~Author Unknown



Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein



I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932



I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ~George Gallup I could smell myself awake with that coffee. ~Jaesse Tyler



What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ~Author Unknown



For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus



Who covets more, is evermore a slave. ~Robert Herrick



War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin



These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks, 1869



Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown



As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield



Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ~Sam Austin



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



Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet.... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth.... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~Carol Krucoff