poems about life

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I may not be different, but I'm definitely not the same. ~William J. Dybus


The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. ~Ronald Gold


If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. ~k.d. lang


No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet. ~Author Unknown


I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ~Orson Welles


Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong


One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. ~Liz Smith


Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful


Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! ~Charlotte M. Yonge


Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful


You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. ~Denise Levertov


Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. ~James Russell Lowell


Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. ~Thurman Arnold


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays


But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ~Galatians 5:22, 23


Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce