poems for mothers from daughters

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. ~Croesus of Lydia



Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The way he treats his body, you�d think he was renting. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886



If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power



Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold



I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849



To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings



When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ~C.S. Lewis



A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan



Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will



We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams



With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Don't expect anything original from an echo. ~Author Unknown



One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb



We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. ~William James



A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. ~John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic



Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. ~Arianna Stassinopoulos



The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. ~John Kenneth Galbraith