poems of love and trust

National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~Author Unknown


Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. ~Terri Guillemets


I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken


The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." ~Shirley Chisholm


Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri


What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~James Russell Lowell


Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. ~Bob Frankston


Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown


Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... ~H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire


Trigonometry is a sine of the times. ~Author Unknown


Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. ~Lawrence Duncan


Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one. ~Grace McGarvie


I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938


Fruit only angers my need for chocolate. ~Jason Love


Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay


I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ~George Robert Gissing


All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19