poems for your mom

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron



I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever. ~W.E.H. Lecky



Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator



I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it? ~Leo Anthony Gallagher



I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974



The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain



Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963



All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. ~D.H. Lawrence, "Peace and War," Pansies, 1929



Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson



I like intellectual reading. It's to my mind what fiber is to my body. ~Grey Livingston



If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



Every wise man lives in an observatory. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ~Mary Worley Montagu



If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney



Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~Elbert Hubbard



Unless we all conform, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free. ~Frank, "Novocaine Mutiny," original airdate 27 January 1976, written by Burt Prelutsky, directed by Harry Morgan Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going. ~Author Unknown



We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown



Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922



I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman



Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin