haiku poems for children

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~e.e. cummings



Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978



There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. ~Max Eastman



There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph Conrad



"In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!" that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire



Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy. ~Author Unknown



What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln



Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne



It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields



The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings



Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave. ~Emile Souvester



Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans. ~Martin H. Fischer



My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight. ~Agave Powers



If my love to you can't be said in a posy, it can't be said in a library. ~Grey Livingston



The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb



Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. ~Red Smith



It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~Robert Louis Stevenson