poems of love and trust
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26 Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. ~Colette, Gigi, 1944, translated
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. ~Norman Cousins
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. ~Woody Allen
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S Truman
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. ~Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. ~Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History
Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified. ~Anita Weiss
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. ~Job 12:7-8
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. ~Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. ~Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. ~Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Script
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. ~Sam Levenson, You Don't Have to Be in "Who's Who" to Know What's What