poems for fathers day

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ~Thomas Jefferson



Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud



We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~Author Unknown



The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman



How lucky we are that we can reach our genitals instead of that spot on our back that itches. ~Flash Rosenberg



Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ~Herman Wouk



I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"



May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. ~Ernst Levy



Truth is a great flirt. ~Franz Liszt



I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette



Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.



A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ~Erma Bombeck



No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb



Creditors have better memories than debtors. ~Benjamin Franklin



Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ~Charles Dickens



There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595



You have to wake up a virgin each morning. ~Jean-Louis Barrault



His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism. ~Orestes Ferrara



No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ~Desiderius Erasmus