THIS SHORT WEEK’S BAR QUOTES – (from 12-24-08)

Your assignment–if you are as brave as you look!–is to memorize your favorite bar quote and then tell it to everyone you meet on New Year’s Eve. You never know, you might inspire someone or put a smile on someone’s face or even change some person’s life. Can you think of something better or more profound to accomplish at the very beginning of the New Year? I didn’t think so.

So good luck with your assignment, all you IMF individuals, and enjoy what’s left of this year!

Patrick The Poet

THIS SHORT WEEK’S BAR QUOTES – (from 12-24-08)

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

–Washington Irving

 

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
–Erica Jong (How to Save Your Own Life)

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
–Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

For many people security is a heavy weight around them that won’t let them consider a serious change in direction.
–Thomas Moore (A Life at Work)

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
–Samuel Ullman

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, itʼs the only thing that ever has.
–Margaret Mead

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
–Woodrow Wilson

In the world of a thousand voices, not everyone speaks the truth in the same way.
–Arabian Nights

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
–Anne Dudley Bradstreet

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
–Elbert Hubbard

Assassins!
–Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

I’ll moider da bum.
–Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of

   William Shakespeare

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
–Yogi Berra

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
–Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.
–Henry Ford (1863-1947)

LOVE IS ALL

Sometimes I like to believe that The Beatles were right: “All You Need Is Love,” and every problem in the world and in our personal lives can be conquered and swept away and the whole world can live in peace and harmony as well as great bounty and freedom.  Well, in reality perhaps love can’t conquer all things and cure the world of all its ills.  But for a few things in life I think it definitely is all we need and is all we should want to need.  This poem, which I dedicated to my great novelist father, is about this very subject.

And if you’d like to read some really great poetry–much of it about love and the power of love–my father’s epic book of verse, “A Lover’s Anthem,” is one I highly recommend.  Naturally.  But it is full of beautiful poems and insightful philosophy, and you can obtain your very own copy of it here: http://synergebooks.com/ebook_loversanthem.html.  For more than not, I believe my father Elsan H. Stafford was right: love is all. 

Patrick The Poet  

LOVE IS ALL (Dedicated TO E.H.S.)

 

At first the day was filled with sunny words and sweet embrace,

That sense of blissful yearning that only love can impart.

For the sun was in your hair and a smile upon your face,

The things that can drive a stranger to steal a stranger’s heart!

 

But words are things, too, that can be as strong as act and deed.

For no stranger or friend ever knows what can come of this,

When words are said in prideful quarrel, without any need,

They can chill the warmest smile and sour the sweetest kiss!

 

For who are we to know in our stark ignorance and youth

How frail is every lover’s heart when harsh words are spoken?

Were it I could speak again and sneak a lie for the truth

To save a higher truth and one heart from being broken!

 

Ah, I would fill the clouds with rain and the sun with sunlight!

I would turn out pain and turn the swallows from turning south!

I would toss forth words like jewels on the tails of stars in flight!

And spend my life every single moment kissing your mouth!

 

At last, then, like music ebbing into diminished thirds,

The sad, direful day can reveal one bright, melodic night!

And even the hurtful memory of the harshest words

Can become rapt, righteous rainfall and soft, splendrous sunlight!

 

So then, let us recall the truer words of love’s embrace,

And reclaim such truths that only forgiveness can impart!

The sunlight is in your hair…and a smile upon my face!

Love is all, and all we need, to heal any lover’s heart.

FAITHFULLY by Journey

Honesty, faithfulness, honor, and fidelity in love and marriage, that’s what this power ballad by the one and only Journey embodies and is about.  And the song does it with the incredible vocals of lead singer Steve Perry, and in an incomparably melodic and emotional tone maybe no other ballad can equal.  I would place this song as one of the greatest romantic ballads ever written and sung.  It always reinforces my faith in the union of marriage every time I hear it–which will never be enough times in one lifetime!  Enjoy.
 
PaTricKThEPoeT
 
LINK TO SONG/LYRICS: http://www.lyrics.com/faithfully-lyrics-journey.html

BEST EVER BLONDE JOKE?

 

BEST EVER BLONDE JOKE?

A blonde calls her boyfriend and says, ‘Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can’t figure out how to get started.’

Her boyfriend asks, ‘What is it supposed to be when it’s finished?’

The blonde says, ‘According to the picture on the box, it’s a rooster.’

Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle.

She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.

He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says,

‘First of all, no matter what we do, we’re not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster.’

He takes her hand and says, ‘Second, I want you to relax. Let’s have a nice cup of tea, and then ..’ He said with a deep sigh. . . . . .

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‘Let’s put all the Corn Flakes back in the box.’

 

 

 

 

THIS WEEK’S BAR QUOTES – ( from 12-19-08)

Some great ones here.  As always!
 
Patrick The Poet
 
 
THIS WEEK’S BAR QUOTES – ( from 12-19-08)
 

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

– H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

 

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

– Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

 

“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”

– Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

 

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”

– Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

 

“His ignorance is encyclopedic”

– Abba Eban (1915-2002)

 

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

– General George S. Patton (1885-1945) 

 

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”

– Charlton Heston (1924-2008)

 

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

– Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

 

“When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.”

– Robert Pirsig (1948-)

 

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

– A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

 

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”

– Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

 

“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”

– Saint Augustine (354-430)

 

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

– Galileo Galilei

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

– Emile Zola (1840-1902)  

 

“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”

– definition of “happiness” by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

 

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

– e e cummings (1894-1962)

 

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”

– Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)