Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JakeTulane]

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pine

[Oiler41]

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." ~ Plato

Glynn

[Soon]

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
~Alexandre Dumas

[Ashton]

"Wimmins, Wimmins is the causin' of it all"

[Spirit Dancer]

One who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's sunrise.
William Blake

[Ebon]

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[BestButchBoy]

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."

Plato

[miss entycing]

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
-- George Bernard Shaw


I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.
When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon!
-- Author Unknown

[Massive]

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown

I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre

For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

"Multiply it by infinity, take it to the depths of forever and you'll still only have a glimpse of how much I love you."
- Author Unknown

"Why do I love you? Because you are and always have been my dream."
- Author Unknown

[Jesse]

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

[always2late]

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

[Duchess]

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Bo Bennett
American, Businessman Quotes

[Duchess]

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

[Duchess]

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson

[BestButchBoy]

“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."

Dorothy Parker

[chefhottie25]

found an old syllabus from undergrad. It was a writing from a femenist view point. I always liked the poem...


the victims

When Mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and
took it in silence, all those years and then
kicked you out, suddenly, and her
kids loved it. Then you were fired, and we
grinned inside, the way people grinned when
Nixon's helicopter lifted off the South
Lawn for the last time. We were tickled
to think of your office taken away,
your secretaries taken away,
your lunches with three double bourbons,
your pencils, your reams of paper. Would they take your
suits back, too, those dark
carcasses hung in your closet, and the black
noses of your shoes with their large pores?
She had taught us to take it, to hate you and take it
until we pricked with her for your
annihilation, Father. Now I
pass the bums in doorways, the white
slugs of their bodies gleaming through slits in their
suits of compressed silt, the stained
flippers of their hands, the underwater
fire of their eyes, ships gone down with the
lanterns lit, and I wonder who took it and
took it from them in silence until they had
given it all away and had nothing
left but this.

Sharon Olds

[Kätzchen]

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

[Jesse]

SELF WORTH

After a while you learn a subtle difference between holding a hand and changing a soul;

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security;

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises;

And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child;

And you learn to build your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans.

After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get to much;

So plant your own garden and decorate your soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers;

And learn that you really can endure,.. That you really are strong, and you really do have worth! - Shane Clark

[Kätzchen]

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
Bees build around red liver,
Ants build around black bone.
It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks,
It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam
Of gypsum, iron sheets, violin strings, trumpets, leaves, balls, crystals.
Poof! Phosphorescent fire from yellow walls
Engulfs animal and human hair.

Bees build around the honeycomb of lungs,
Ants build around white bone.
Torn is paper, rubber, linen, leather, flax,
Fiber, fabrics, cellulose, snakeskin, wire.
The roof and the wall collapse in flame and heat seizes the foundations.
Now there is only the earth, sandy, trodden down,
With one leafless tree.

Slowly, boring a tunnel, a guardian mole makes his way,
With a small red lamp fastened to his forehead.
He touches buried bodies, counts them, pushes on,
He distinguishes human ashes by their luminous vapor,
The ashes of each man by a different part of the spectrum.
Bees build around a red trace.
Ants build around the place left by my body.

I am afraid, so afraid of the guardian mole.
He has swollen eyelids, like a Patriarch
Who has sat much in the light of candles
Reading the great book of the species.

What will I tell him, I, a Jew of the New Testament,
Waiting two thousand years for the second coming of Jesus?
My broken body will deliver me to his sight
And he will count me among the helpers of death:
The uncircumcised.

Warsaw, 1943
By Czeslaw Milosz from "Selected Poems", 1973
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz
© Czeslaw Milosz

[BestButchBoy]

“If you get to thinking you are a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around."

Will Rogers