poems for new year

Twice as much to love, two blessings from above. ~Author Unknown



For several moments both of us were the unconscious and cosmic toys of our own deception. ~"The Mission," Chapter 4



I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck



How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood



There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. ~B. Quilliam



While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson



Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown



We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season



Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ~Alphonse Karr



Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. ~Elmer Davis



When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. ~Bill Lemley



Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937



There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. ~Josh Billings



Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~James Thurber, Further Fables for Our Time, 1956



If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere



Anthology: a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music.



The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ~Damon Runyon, "More Than Somewhat," in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885



I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ~Charles Pierce, 1980