poems for moms birthday

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen



If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas



Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. ~Maltbie D. Babcock



Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze



This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw



A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. ~From the movie Arthur



If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack



I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown



Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles



I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ~Bertrand Russell, 1912



Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990



This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen. ~George Carlin



Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure. ~Harvard Lamphoon, "Doon" (paraphrase)



One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens. ~Pete Alfano



A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain



You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. ~Grantland Rice