poems for sister in law

What is the city but the people? ~William Shakespeare



How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine (Thanks, Paula) How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine



I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here. ~Author Unknown



For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. ~John Cheever



Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005



Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb



Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. ~Judah Ibn Tibbon



You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good. ~Paul Westphal



History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. ~Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture



Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne



Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. ~Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew, 1762



It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. ~Rebecca West



Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth



I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. ~Sarah Moore Grimke



In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. ~Author Unknown



Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb



Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ~Thornton Wilder



The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ~Stephen Sondheim



The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911



What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere