i will miss you poems

I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. ~Oscar Wilde



Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau



Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. ~Susan Scarf Merrell



You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, "The Mission," Chapter 8



Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included. ~Author Unknown



It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete



After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown



I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi



Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. ~Author Unknown



Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles M. Hayes



Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson



To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post



Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. ~Roseanne



Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif



Strange...a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! ~Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger



Earth with heaven above rejoices... ~Charles Kingsley



To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ~Beverly Nichols



English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. ~Author Unknown