poems for him from the heart
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown
When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. ~Herbert Agar
A college education shows a man how little other people know. ~Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. ~Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. ~Kin Hubbard
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~B.F. Skinner
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark. ~Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway
Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters. ~Hartman Jule
Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. ~Sigmund Freud
You might be a fireman if you've ever said, "she's hot tonight" and not been talking about a girl. ~Author Unknown
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. ~Henry S. Haskins