animal poems for children

Money may talk, but chocolate sings. ~Author Unknown



History, that excitable and unreliable old lady. ~Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau



And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. ~Bill Bryson



Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. ~Thomas A. Bailey



The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ~Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967



When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955



Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon



Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas. ~Joanne Woodward Which is worse, screwing an intern or screwing the country? ~Author Unknown



If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? ~John Lancaster Spalding



Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. ~Anne Hollander



In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown



How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire? ~Christy Whitehead



Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



Skipping is nature's Prozac. ~Jessi Lane Adams



The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey



The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson



It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924



Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ~Edwin Way Teale



Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com