baby shower poems for boys

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. ~Paul Valery, Tel quel, 1943


Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms


Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. ~Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956


When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. ~Author Unknown


Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! ~Thomas Carlyle


When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


It's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person who I have to be better than is myself. ~Colonel Potter


The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. ~Author Unknown


Nature hates calculators. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza


You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler


Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself. ~Author unknown, possibly from Monty Python?


Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall


Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden


A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb


Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~Ikkyu Sojun


God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author Unknown