poems for the dead

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau



For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson



To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ~Schumann



There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown



I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. ~Allan Wells, referring to Carl Lewis, 1989



Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle. ~Author Unknown



Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes. ~Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, EDtv, 1999



Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ~Woodrow Wilson



The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ~Eric Hoffer



Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head. ~Graffiti



Coffee, n. break fluid. ~Author Unknown



I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein



I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~Nicolas Chamfort



Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ~Eric Hoffer



A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ~Alfred Hitchcock



Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood, as we write with it, turns to mere dull ink. ~F.H. Bradley