poems for fathers day

Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ~Frank Lloyd Wright



I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. ~Tammy Faye Bakker



Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook, 1956



Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare



Horses lend us the wings we lack. ~Author Unknown



People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. ~Honore de Balzac



Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. ~Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson



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



What do nudists wear on casual Fridays? ~Author Unknown



It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ~Robert Benchley



The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault), The Red Lily, 1894



To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ~Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907



Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



One of these days is none of these days. ~Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn



I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. ~Gene Perret



Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~Author Unknown



The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. ~Henry Knox Sherrill