poems for mom and dad

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine. ~Gene Perret



Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. ~James Russell Lowell, Literary Essays



Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~Michel de Montaigne Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb



Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. ~A.B. Christie



Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat. ~Lillian Johnson



A relationship is a loving bond between two people, and a threesome can take the edge off that. ~Coupling, "Jane and the Truth Snake," original airdate 1 October 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Patrick



Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown



The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. ~Sean Ningen



We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. ~Carrie Latet



Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987



Breastfeeding is nature's health plan. ~Author Unknown



Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown



When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955



Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman



My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. ~Tom Stoppard My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. ~Liberace



Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Author Unknown



It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~Charles Baudelaire



I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. ~Eli Khamarov, America Explained!



The night sky is a miracle of infinitude. ~Terri Guillemets