love and pain poems

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound


Art is an adventure that never seems to end. ~Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999


Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "Does not!" ~Author Unknown


Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb


Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley


What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan


To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. ~Don Schrader


The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb


Nurses are I.V. leaguers. ~Author Unknown


I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae West


All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain


Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. ~Robb Sagendorph


My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ~Robert A. Stern


He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. ~Torvald Gahlin


Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor


Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. ~Shigeo Shingo


When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? ~Rene Rivkin


To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness. ~Fritz Perls