poems for loved ones

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. ~Elbert Hubbard



As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ~Proverbs 25:25



The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ~H.G. Wells, Bealby, 1915



Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"



Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. ~Billy Connolly



Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. ~Liz Smith



There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. ~James Reston



All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport. ~Mike Royko, 1994



Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes. ~Gerald Lieberman



It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron



Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown



Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. ~James 3:5-6



Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb



Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ~Author unknown, from New Yorker, "Talk of the Town"



No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003, spoken by the character Luna Lovegood



Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol



A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. ~Clifton Paul Fadiman



I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse



A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Author Unknown