poems for death

Hug Department: Always Open ~Author Unknown



When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca



I know that astrology isn't a science... Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis.... The rules just kind of got there. They don't make any kind of sense except in terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all sorts of processes start to happen and you start to find out all sorts of stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people. ~Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless



I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda



Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey, "Walking"



Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. ~Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker, 1955



I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath



Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out. ~Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.



Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? ~From the television show Boston Common



Each season of adventure reality television gets more and more challenging. I'm waiting for them to come out with a Survivor: Phoenix in July edition. ~Linda Solegato



A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~Author Unknown



Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. ~Oliver Herford



If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ~Lu Yu



It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball



He is every other inch a gentleman. ~Rebecca West



With neurotics, it's always "some assembly required." ~Terri Guillemets



Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990



Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero