famous funny poems

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away. ~Author Unknown, "The Scrappers Creed"



But ne'er the rose without the thorn. ~Robert Herrick



Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau



I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson



Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb



Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw



The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa



Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ~Proverbs 6:27



It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne



"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel." ~Paul Frost



It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. ~Psalms 127:2



A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn



Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. ~Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship



America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ~John Updike



We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ~W.S. Merwin



If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ~The Talmud



Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber



Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? ~John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960



Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand. ~Author Unknown