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