love poems for dad from daughter

Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb



Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. ~Erma Bombeck



A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. ~Helen Rowland



Washington's appointments, when president, were made with a view to gather all the talent of the country in support of the national government; and he bore many things which were personally disagreeable in an endeavor to do this. ~Paul Leicester Ford



Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. ~Isaiah Berlin



Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound



Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. ~Saul Bellow, about America



Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. ~Jackie Gleason



Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ~Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high.



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



Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897 (Thanks, Jessica)



Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu



The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22



The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs



It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. ~George Bernard Shaw



Homecoming means tradition. ~Author Unknown



Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin



A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. ~Edna Ferber



How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting. ~Ernst Mach