poems for facebook status

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~Edgar Degas



American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. ~Sue Lawley, 1985



My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton



I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. ~George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys



Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. ~Benjamin Disraeli



The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius



Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~Caryn Leschen



Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open. ~Agnes de Mille



My love-lies-bleeding. ~Thomas Campbell



What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. Nonetheless they embody the concentrated experience of the race. ~Norman Douglas



The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller



I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. ~George Sanders



Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg



We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams



The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius Antonius



A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~Rupert Brooke



Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. ~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off



Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown



A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner