-Mark Twain
"Experience is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
-Mark O'donnell from "Getting Over Homer"
"Once is a Tragedy
Twice is a farce"
-Karl Marx
"What we acquire to cheaply
We esteem to lightly."
-Unknown
"May I deal with honor
May I act with courage
May I achieve humility"
-Unknown
"Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?"
-Browning
"Lord give me chastity but not yet."
St. Augustine
"Laisser Les Bon Temp Rouler"
-Unknown
" May you live in interesting times"
-Ancient Chinese Curse. ----?do we?
"For the first time in U.S. history, the qualifications of a front-runner for the presidency are converging withthose of the Prince of Wales: heredity and birth." -- Kevin Aphillips Harpers magazine Feb. 2000
This is not a poem but song lyrics. I think that this song speaks for the youth at the time that it was written and also for young people today, both the cronologically and spiritually young.
