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Cool Poetry

    Forest sways,
    rocks press heavily,
    roots grip,
    tree-trunk close to tree-trunk.
    Wave upon wave breaks, foaming,
    deepest cavern provides shelter.
    Goethe, "Faust"

    If of all words of tongue and pen,
    The saddest are, "It might have been,"
    More sad are these we daily see:
    "It is, but hadn't ought to be."
    Francis Brett Hart (or John Greenleafe Whittier, "Maud Muller")

    Death be not proud, though some have called thee
    Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
    For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
    Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
    Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
    And soonest our best men with thee do go,
    Rest of their bones, and souls' delivery.
    Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
    And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
    And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
    And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
    One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
    And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
    John Donne (1572-1631)
    Holy Sonnets, no. 10

    We pray for one last landing
    On the globe that gave us birth;
    Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies
    And the cool green hills of Earth.
    Robert A. Heinlein

    You can be a king or a street-sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper.

    The air was alive with the rush and flutter of wings; it was ripped by screaming shells, hissing like tons of molten metal plunging suddenly into water, there was the blast and concussion of their explosion, men smashed, obliterated in sudden eruptions of earth, rent and strewn in bloody fragments, shells that were like hell-cats humped and spitting, little sounds, unpleasantly close, lie the plucking of tense strings, and something tangling his feet, tearing at his trousers and puttees as he stumbled over it, and then a face suddenly, an inconceivably disorted face, which raved and sobbed at him as he fell with it into a shell-hole.
    Frederic Manning, Middle Parts of Fortune
    (Accounts of The Great War)
Cool quotes

"It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something."

    Jack Handey

    Woody Allen
     "It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."

    Woody Allen
     "When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."

    Woody Allen
     "If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter."

    Henry Elliot
     "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

    William Hazlitt
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    Mark Twain
     "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

    Sir Francis Bacon
     "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."

    Henry Ward Beecher

     "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."

    Aristotle
     "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

    Will Rogers
     "Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins."

    Henry Ward Beecher
     "Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis."

    Jack Handey
     "Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."

    Jack Handey
     "If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast."

    Jack Handey
     "Why is it that we will laugh at a man in a clown outfit, but we won't laugh at a man just walking down the street carrying a clown outfit in one of those plastic dry-cleaner bags?"

    Jack Handey
     "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."

    Jack Handey
     "Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."

    Orison Swett Marden
     "He who laughs, lasts."

    Mary Pettibone Poole
     "With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke."

    Will Rogers
     "We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can."

    Will Rogers
     "A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach."

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca
     "A good laugh is sunshine in a house."

    William Makepeace Thackeray
     "Once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

    Eleanor Roosevelt
     "Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister ... and now wish to withdraw that statement."

    Mark Twain
     "Santa Claus has the right idea ... visit people only once a year."

    Victor Borge
     "What would men be without women? Scarce, sir ... mighty scarce."

    Mark Twain
     "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

    Socrates
     "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

    Groucho Marx
     "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."

    Jimmy Durante
     "I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

    Zsa Zsa Gabor
     "Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat."

    Alex Levine
     "A woman drove me to drink ... and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her."

    W C Fields
     "I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."

    W C Fields
     "It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth."

    George Burns
     "Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac."

    Unknown
     "The only real diet: If it tastes good ... spit it out."

    Unknown
     "An optimist laughs to forget. A pessimist forgets to laugh."

    Unknown
     "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

    Winston Churchill
     "One of the best things people can have up their sleeve is a funny bone"

    Unknown
     "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
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