poems for a teacher
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles. ~Louise Jordan Miln, The Feast of Lanterns
This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ~Voltaire
The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells." ~Author Unknown
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. ~Mae West
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~Willa Sibert Cather
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~Joseph Joubert
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~Henri Amiel
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. ~Author Unknown
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. ~Abraham Lincoln
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~Aldous Huxley
Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ~Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949
