shape poems for kids

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat. ~Irish Proverb



Curmudgeon: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner (source: Portable Curmudgeon Redux, Jon Winokur).



This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. ~Samuel Johnson



The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ~Ellen Goodman



The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Terri Guillemets



Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958



A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. ~Henry David Thoreau



The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather



Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. ~Oscar Wilde



Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. ~Author Unknown



If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist�s office would be full of luminous ideas. ~Mason Cooley



Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman



A mathematician is a scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. ~Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary



Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw



I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. ~Steven Wright



Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson



If it draws blood, it's hardware. ~Author Unknown



What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it? ~Jenny DeVries



A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ~Arthur Miller