poems for fathers from daughters

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. ~Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962



The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. ~Benjamin Disraeli



They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. ~Henry Ward Beecher



We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et umbra," 1888



Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi



Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ~Daniel 5:27



Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out. ~Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.



Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. ~Stephanie Piro



Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown



There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ~Finley Peter Dunne



So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington



I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. ~Peter Ustinov



Be sincere; be brief; be seated. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking



If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter



It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. ~Paddy Chayevsky



Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need



We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. ~Brad Park We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Author Unknown



The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets