funny mother poems

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. ~Jonathan Swift



The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso



A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts. ~Charles Wesley Burns



I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever. ~W.E.H. Lecky



To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. ~Roland Barthes



Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. ~Proverb



Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind



You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. ~Lillian Gish



If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon



Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert



When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ~Bill Gates



May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift



Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Ann Seton



What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind. ~Cleveland Amory



I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. ~E.M. Forster



How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor! ~Colette



Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West



A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. ~Percival Arland Ussher