poems for death

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert


Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967


All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close


Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield


When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson


People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 People who rely most on God rely least on themselves. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays


But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ~Fareed Zakaria


Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Thou hast added insult to injury. ~Phaedrus


My garden is my favorite teacher. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown


I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ~Norman Mailer


I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner


Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard


The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs


It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller


To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. ~Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book