poems for baby girls

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore



Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. ~Samuel Butler



The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957



If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~Benjamin Franklin



And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. ~Erica Jong



New York, the nation's thyroid gland. ~Christopher Morley, Shore Leave



We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas



Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. ~Jonathan Swift



Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon



Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. ~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer



War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. ~Robert Hall



We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon



I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. ~Finley Peter Dunne



All I've got against it is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse. ~Eric Linklater, Poet's Pub, 1929



Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. ~Henry Van Dyke