poems for dummies

A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ~Francis O'Walsh



Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost



Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. ~George A. Sheehan



I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see! ~Dave Beard



Death is a debt we all must pay. ~Euripides



To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post



Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbe Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928



Cheerleaders are angels - we're the only humans who can fly. ~Author Unknown



If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 3



Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~Denis Diderot



If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb



A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of the Mind," Moral Essays



The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ~Ansel Adams The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. ~Ecclesiastes 9:11



Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? ~Flann O'Brien



Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951



An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas



No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~Christopher Morley