poems for uncles
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ~Lord Byron
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ~Oscar Wilde
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872
If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got. ~Author Unknown
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. ~Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes quoted as "It is the customer that pays the wages"
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield
The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup
As the poet said, "only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people. ~Frank James
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener
My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. ~Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
