poems for children

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~Mark Twain



An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played Carnegie Hall. ~Oscar Levant



I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. ~Henry James



The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! ~Walter Winchell



The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. ~Bill Frist



Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. ~Benjamin Stillingfleet



To know the hight sic of a mountain, one must climb it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. ~Ezra Pound



I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei



If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler



It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep



Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. ~Isaiah Berlin



Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain



Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. ~J.K. Rowling, "Dobby's Reward," Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Arthur Weasley



If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. ~Clarence Day



Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. ~Judith Olney



Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. ~Diderot, Pensees philosophiques, 1746



A man's home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. ~Clare Booth Luce