funny poems for kids

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong



The old theory was "Marry an older man, because they're more mature." But the new theory is: "Men don't mature. Marry a younger one." ~Rita Rudner



We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." ~Arthur Stanley Eddington



We're all hookers. What matters is dignity. ~Mike Farren



At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb



Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. ~William Hazlitt, Sketches and Essays, 1839



Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris



The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. ~Barry Goldwater



Do you think there's such a thing as airborne calories? Maybe they just jump directly onto your hips. ~Coupling, "Remember This," original airdate 14 October 2002, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally



Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage? ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love



Horse racing is animated roulette. ~Roger Kahn



Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. ~Ken Harrelson, Sports Illustrated, 6 September 1976



A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ~S.N. Behrman



Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot



To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S Truman



Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. ~Christina Rossetti



The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com