poems for teenagers

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. ~W.N. Rieger



Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. ~Marlene Dietrich



Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas. ~Joanne Woodward Which is worse, screwing an intern or screwing the country? ~Author Unknown



It was a typical net.exercise - a screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot on the pavement, where used to lie the carcass of a dead horse. ~Author Unknown



Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown



Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ~Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. ~Owen Laughlin



History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. ~Jacob Burckhardt



I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ~Martha Graham, c.1953



Don't question God, for He may reply: "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here." ~Author Unknown



Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley



The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown



Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. ~G.K. Chesterton



Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~Jim Murray



Our genes make us immortal. ~The Secret of Life, PBS



There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. ~Author Unknown



Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. ~George A. Dorsey



Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911



I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. ~Peter O'Toole, on psychoanalysis