phenomenal woman poem

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. ~Alice Meynell



I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey



If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. ~Jerome Singer



Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. ~A. Bronson Alcott



We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes



Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. ~Bulstrode Whitlock



Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~From The Andy Griffith Show



It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. ~Christopher Morley



I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content. ~Jenny Eclair



We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa



The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. ~Thurgood Marshall



Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller



If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic



Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest



For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~Lily Tomlin



There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. ~Roderick Haig-Brown, Fisherman's Spring, 1951 There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you. ~Mae West



I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. ~George Washington



And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams