poems for kids

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox



Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. ~Sam Ewing



A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller



It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Friedrich von Schiller



People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. ~Pearl Bailey



The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ~Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967



He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?



Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. ~James Thurber



Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating



When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? ~Pam Brown



He talked about Father Junipero Serra's qualifications for sainthood: they say he cured a nun's lupus. A miracle. Now I'm not a doctor, but I know lupus goes into remission. It's not always fatal. Have Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder play ping-pong together. That's a miracle. ~Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 February 1989



Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. ~Georg Simmel



God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer



A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. ~Kin Hubbard



It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller



Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. ~Saint Thomas Aquinas



Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside. ~Author Unknown



If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them. ~Harry Toscano