love you dad poems

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter



Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson



Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer. ~Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s



If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld



We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. ~Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949



It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. ~Evelyn Loeb



Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get. ~George D. Prentice



Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman



Sex relieves tension - love causes it. ~Woody Allen



During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. ~Melissa Bank



The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb



Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Polish Proverb



In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25



Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb



The poor are poor because the rich are rich. ~Author Unknown



Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994



From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. ~S.M. Crothers



Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling. ~Author Unknown