poems for fathers from daughters

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. ~Russell P. Askue


Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown


Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. ~Martin H. Fischer


We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. ~Sandra Day O'Connor


Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley


If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable. ~Grey Livingston


Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. ~Gerald Barzan


I say me, knowing all the while it's not me. ~Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, 1953


Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973


God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no. ~Author Unknown


Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Hanukkah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis. ~KOACH Humor, "Holiday Distinctions Finally Explained" (KOACH College Outreach is a project of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism)


There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965


Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton


The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own. ~Michael Korda


Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~T.S. Eliot


There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~Willa Cather


You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. ~Elias Canetti


Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste


Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford


It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown