poems for teachers

Codi: "So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives."


Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "Pilot," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Carmela Soprano


This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators. ~Dick Vertleib


My husband is a human pincushion. ~Author Unknown


Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ~Martin H. Fischer


If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell


Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion. ~Wendell Phillips


Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart. ~Nate Dircks


No matter how much the neurotic accomplished yesterday - even if he finished - he must start anew today. ~Terri Guillemets


My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968


The study of history is the playground of patriotism. ~George M. Wrong


No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle


Nothing is more useful than silence. ~Menander of Athens


I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896


Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~Rainer Maria Rilke


The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner. ~Author Unknown


Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle


Golf is life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life. ~Author Unknown


Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin