poems for a brother

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~Art Buchwald



We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ~John F. Kennedy



So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. ~Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879



We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Presence is more than just being there. ~Malcolm S. Forbes, The Further Sayings of Chairman Malcolm



Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ~H.F. Hedge



Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. ~William R. Alger



The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. ~Thomas Jefferson



There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. ~Author Unknown



Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Scha



I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. ~Sigmund Freud



Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson



There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. ~Jim Fiebig



Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ~Author Unknown



If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. ~Anchee Min, Becoming Madame Mao



Only that day dawns to which we are awake. ~Henry David Thoreau



Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's World Book, 1906



The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. ~Author Unknown



When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. ~Julia Gregson