Poems (random)

Young men's knocks old men feel. - Proverb, (english)

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. - Ellen Degeneres

Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try. - Mrs. Cunningham

The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. - Horace Greeley

A restive morsel needs a spur of wine. - Proverb, (french)

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. - Lord Chesterfield

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. - Nicolas Chamfort

A blow with a reed makes a noise but hurts not. - Proverb, (spanish)

Count your blessings. - Proverb, (german)

In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart. - Proverb, (german)

A hug a day keeps the demons at bay. - Proverb, (german)

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays, And confident to-morrows. - William Wordsworth, The Excursion

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. - Proverb

Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today. - Martial

And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. - William Shakespeare

On a fool's beard all learn to shave. - Proverb, (portuguese, Spanish)

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.". - Mao Tse-tung

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Mary Roberts Rhinehart

The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, "I hope I will not find one." - Proverb, (madagasy)

Better one living word than a hundred dead ones. - Proverb, (german)