poems for uncles

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy. ~Author Unknown Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel



A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



What is the city but the people? ~William Shakespeare



The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. ~Alexis de Tocqueville



You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs



There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum



A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. ~Martin H. Fischer



We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop



I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi



A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ~Proverbs 16:9



I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~Lou Reed



It's not what you wear - it's how you take it off. ~Author Unknown



Whether he likes it or not, a man�s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden



Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. ~Author Unknown



More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore



It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. ~Robert M. Pirsig



To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ~John Stuart Mill