rhyming poems for haters
It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A family is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown
Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters
Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ~G.K. Chesterton
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~Maya Angelou, PBS, 28 March 1988
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ~Lenny Bruce
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~Richard Lamm
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. ~Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. ~Katherine Mansfield
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841
Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th. ~Author Unknown
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. ~Richard Kemph
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ~Orson Welles
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton