fiddlers green poem

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~Frank Pittman, Man Enough



Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus



There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright



Hearing protection is a sound investment. ~Author Unknown



A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott



While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange



Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton



To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender



There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through. ~Author Unknown



The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster



Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950



You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~Author Unknown



While the rhythm of running emphasizes a downward motion, the upward motion of skipping defies gravity and elevates my mood in the process. ~Susan Reineck, as posted on iskip.com



It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein



The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it. ~Jose Iturbi



Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. ~William Menninger



Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~Fred Allen



Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger