poems for facebook

Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck. ~Author Unknown



Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. ~Goethe



I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Walter Lippmann



Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ~Astrid Alauda



I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain



When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. ~Author Unknown



All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman



There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"



If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson



No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ~Abraham Lincoln



Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. ~Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969



Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool. ~John J. Miller, And Hope to Die



A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ~Dean Acheson



The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude



Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Walter Lippmann