poems for dad

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. ~Philip Howard


Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden


Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln


The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy


If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin


Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


A hangover is the wrath of grapes. ~Author Unknown


There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1890


If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuytbn pasdlgkhasdfasdf. ~Lemony Snicket


Hope is a path through a flowering meadow. One doesn't require that it lead anywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions. ~Author Unknown


How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy


I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe


It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson


Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets


We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart Udall