poems for life

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~Mark Kennedy



A lot of top guys have dark moods. That Winston Churchill drank a quart of brandy before breakfast. Napoleon, he was a moody fuck, too. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Silvio Dante



"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield



A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"



In this prostituting society, we all have to hustle, and I'd rather suck cock than kiss ass! ~Margo St. James, attributed



What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. ~Frederick Phillips



Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting. ~Billy Wilder



God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher



By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra



The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan



The different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll



It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~Agnes Repplier



To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I skip for that all-over body tickle. ~John Olesen



Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ~Author Unknown



Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi



The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it. ~Author Unknown