funny poems for adults

After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers. ~Astrid Alauda



Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. ~Marc Brown



Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ~Paul Gray



Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey



Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~B.F. Skinner



We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has. ~Gamaliel Bradford



Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. ~Walter A. Mueller



When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. ~Joseph Addison



Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey



I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides



He only salutes the flag with one finger. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, about Bart Simpson



Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. ~Praxedis Guerrero, RegeneraciOn, 18 February 1911



Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ~John Leonard



No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul. ~Bruce McCall, "The Case Against Golf," Esquire



I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. ~Stephen Vincent Benet



Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects