acrostic poems for names

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate



He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does so as an adult has no brain. ~John Moore



Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." ~Peter Brodie



Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown



A promise is a debt. ~Proverb



Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, The Republic



A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ~Sir Winston Churchill



You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. ~Rudyard Kipling



Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France



Death is the surest calculation that can be made. ~Ludwig B�chner, Force and Matter



A quilt will warm your body and comfort your soul. ~Author Unknown



Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck



Laughorisms: humorous aphorisms, a term coined by Ambrose Bierce.



You need special shoes for hiking - and a bit of a special soul as well. ~Terri Guillemets



What we do flows from who we are. ~Paul Vitale



Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce



As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner



If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for. ~Patricia Lynch