love and hate poems

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events. ~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart



We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang



A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith



Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye



A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb



I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. ~Steven Wright



Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you ~Bennett Cerf



A crying baby is the best form of birth control. ~Carole Tabron



Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ~Carl Zwanzig



True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~Alfred North Whitehead



Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. ~Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927



To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~Confucius



Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang



He not busy being born is busy dying. ~Bob Dylan



That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. ~Humphrey Bogart



I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race



May is a pious fraud of the almanac. ~James R. Lowell