poems for daughter

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley



You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. ~Erving Goffman



Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or "programmers." ~Peter F. Drucker



Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You



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



Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet



Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin



Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob Rubin



Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane



This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210, spoken by the character Steve Sanders



A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb



It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. ~Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World



I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ~Romans 7:19



Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger



Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust



Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993



The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world. ~Thomas Aquinas