funny poems about life

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. ~Confucius



I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable. ~Sherry Glaser



The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale



Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. ~Joseph Conrad



My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. ~Paul Robeson



It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. ~Groucho Marx



Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke



A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. ~Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900



I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908



Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. ~Rob Stampfli



Worry is rust upon the blade. ~Henry Ward Hughes



Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588



Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown



Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~Lily Tomlin



You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991



Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. ~Bob Edwards