poems for your sister

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. ~Voltaire, Traite sur la tolerance



Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous



Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ~George Bernard Shaw



American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ~Gordie Howe, 1975



Every man expects some miracle - either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. ~Paul Valery



One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905



Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You



College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ~George Gobel



If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed. ~Lily Tomlin



No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. ~Thurman W. Arnold



Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A steady job and a mutual fund is still the best defense against social security. ~Author Unknown



Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day. ~Grey Livingston



When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi



Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal



Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~Ernie Kovacs



I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere



Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. ~Helen Powers