poems for dads birthday

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby



Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much



I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate. ~Author Unknown



The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. ~James A. Garfield



If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb



Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. ~Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby



Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to. ~Richard Harris Barham



Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert



Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. ~Ulysses S. Grant



Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ~Moritz Guedemann



There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell



Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ~Ellen Frankfort



The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. ~Reginald Wright Kauffman



You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~Colette



Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window. ~Grey Livingston



Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist



The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan



If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell



There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ~Oscar Wilde



Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorthea Lange