paris at night poem

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ~Lord Chesterton



Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor



The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck



Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus



All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport. ~Mike Royko, 1994



A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois



A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. ~A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth



The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault



You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams



When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. ~George Fisher



Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, translated



Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb



The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten



I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. ~Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise



Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ~Author Unknown



Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ~Walter Savage Landor



The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare



Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell



If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere