quotes and poems about life

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal



Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~Author Unknown



It is never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Tom Robbins



Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~Carl Sagan



He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher



It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus



Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe



Question: " I understand that Congress is considering a so-called 'flat' tax system. How would this work?" Answer: "If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool." ~Dave Barry



I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx



How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete? ~Author Unknown



It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin



Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown



It's not enough just to change parties in this election. If we hope to truly transform this country, we have to change our politics too. It's time to turn the page. ~Barack Obama, 2007 Jun 19, Washington, D.C.



Despair is anger with no place to go. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



"Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. ~Carl Schurz



When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. ~George Boas



Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. ~Mae West



A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. ~Kin Hubbard



Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.