Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle, moaning over head
Scribbling on the sky the message "He is Dead."
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever. I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can come to any good.
~ W. H. Auden
Showing posts with label good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good. Show all posts
May 10, 2012
My spelling is wobbly. It's good spelling but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~ A. A. Milne
March 04, 2012
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein
February 03, 2012
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. ~ Robert Redford
January 23, 2012
Chinese Good Luck Mantra
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.
When you say, "I'm sorry" look the person in the eye.
When you say, "I love you" mean it.
Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
Believe in love at first sight.
Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
In disagreements, fight fairly. Please, no name calling.
Don't judge people by their relatives.
Talk slowly but think quickly.
When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks.
Say, "Bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Remember the three "R's": respect for self; respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
Spend some time alone.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.
When you say, "I'm sorry" look the person in the eye.
When you say, "I love you" mean it.
Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
Believe in love at first sight.
Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
In disagreements, fight fairly. Please, no name calling.
Don't judge people by their relatives.
Talk slowly but think quickly.
When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks.
Say, "Bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Remember the three "R's": respect for self; respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
Spend some time alone.
December 15, 2011
Its a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet. You never know when you may have to eat them. ~ Unknown
October 16, 2011
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ~ Abraham Lincoln
September 22, 2011
Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them. If you can't find them at first, find good music and fall into it, let it hold you until they come. ~ Davey Havok
September 21, 2011
The Road of Life
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now.
Let me not neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
~Ettiene De Grellet
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now.
Let me not neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
~Ettiene De Grellet
August 10, 2011
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ~ Rene Descartes
July 24, 2011
Do not believe in anything simply because you heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observations and analysis, when you find anything with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~ Buddha
July 02, 2011
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
~ Swedish proverb
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
~ Swedish proverb
June 17, 2011
There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are and sometimes in spite of it. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton (from " Anita Blake: Incubus Dreams")
May 07, 2011
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. ~ Bill Vaughan
March 22, 2011
If you can't be a good example, then you will just have to serve as a horrible warning. ~ Unknown
March 04, 2011
There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power. ~ Jane Austen (from "Northanger Abbey")
February 28, 2011
Too many times for comfort I have expected to reap good when I know I have sown evil. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now")
February 06, 2011
Are you under the delusion that life and history are about justice and that societies, through some divine intercession, pay for their past atrocities? Throughout human history, no "divine" agency has ever interfered with the infliction of suffering by one culture onto another... not once. Good never triumphs over evil, it exists in spite of it. ~ Jack Kilmon
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