short funny poems for kids

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. ~Jack Kerouac


Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies


Primitive does not mean stupid. ~Author Unknown


We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~Max Kauffman


All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954


The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson


Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ~Galway Kinnell


When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. ~John Burroughs


I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain


A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~"Homer Simpson," from the television show The Simpsons


If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith


Wear your own skin. ~As seen on a shirt at pangeaveg.com


I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We must care for each other more, and tax each other less. ~Bill Archer


The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr


To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ~Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974


A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself. ~Terri Guillemets