poems for mothers

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~Ansel Adams



Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy



Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti



The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~Heinrich Heine



We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's Society



Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. ~Martin H. Fischer



I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin Lewis



A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~Author Unknown



When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James



You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown



I named my kitten Rose - fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns. ~Astrid Alauda



If you have lived, take thankfully the past. ~John Dryden



Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~Doug Larson



Fire is the most tolerable third party. ~Henry David Thoreau



The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ~Author Unknown



Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. ~Louis Kossuth



Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Bronte



All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949