poems for fathers day

Passage: a usually brief portion of a written work or speech that is relevant to a point under discussion or noteworthy for content or style.



Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. ~Robert Gordon Menzies



Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ~Countess of Blessington



The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown



The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang



If you are walking to seek, ye shall find. ~Sommeil Liberosensa



It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown



To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Soren Kierkegaard



The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy



Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954



I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~Vaslav Nijinsky



There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! ~Richard P. Feynman



Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can�t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can�t explain it. ~Author Unknown



Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. ~Lord Northcliffe



The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes. ~Dave Barry



I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ~James Conrad



The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ~Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe



While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. ~Lady Bird Johnson



The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. ~Richard Steele, The Spectator