Favorite Quotes & Short Poems? (funny or serious)?

Question

What are your favorite quotes or short poems? - especially for Mother's Day - for moms and grandma's etc...

Answer 1

JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

  The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

  Long time the manxome foe he sought --

So rested he by the Tumtum tree,

  And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

  And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

  He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?

  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

  He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

  And the mome raths outgrabe.

This is a translation of the first verse,

"It was evening, and the smooth active badgers

were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side,

all unhappy were the parrots

and the grave turtles squeaked out."

Answer 2

"There once was a man from Nantucket...."

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln once said, when served a hot beverage at a dinner, "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

Joni Mitchell said, "They pave paradise and put up a parking lot."

The sign on Woody Guthrie's guitar said, "This Machine Kills Fascists"

Kurt Vonnegut Jr said the only difference between George Bush and Adolf Hitler is "that Hitler was elected."

Bob Dylan said that "Money doesn't talk; it swears...."

Joe Strummer said "Yankee detective, always on the TV, 'cause killers in America work seven days a week"

Rene Magritte said, "This is not a pipe"

Answer 4

“My home is wherever my loved ones are.” – mrg 08

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.’ – Mother Teresa