poems for facebook status

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley



The army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958



Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart



In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus



Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987



In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~Cicero



The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. ~Author Unknown



With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer. ~A.C. Van Cherub



History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. ~Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History



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



People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ~William Butler Yeats



A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. ~Rabindranath Tagore



The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~H.L. Mencken



Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown



Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~C.C. Colton



A canter is a cure for every evil. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. ~Author Unknown



Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. ~Henry Drummond



In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ~Edward Hoagland



Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties, they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. ~Carrie Latet