
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
Herbert V. Prochnow (1897-1998) was an American banking executive, speaker, and writer.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
Herbert V. Prochnow (1897-1998) was an American banking executive, speaker, and writer.
Positive outlook
Autumn’s gift of timely peace—
Every falling leaf

Autumn’s final days
Cascading colors of leaves—
Playing its swan song

Fragile leaf dropping
Barren forest standing still—
Autumn says, “So long”


The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.
Julian Barnes (born 1946) is an English writer. He has also written fictional crime dramas under the pseudonym of Dan Kavanagh.

Looking into nearby trees
Visualizing every leaf
Moving with another breeze
Viewing each artist’s motif
Reminding of blessed life
Molding self, with every hour
Breathing in peace, without strife
Seasoning days, never sour
Touching greenest blades of grass
Remembering every step
Topping off another glass
Sitting at nature’s doorstep
Exploring depths of these woods
Imagining what’s waiting
Delivering timeless goods
Tasting life, captivating


Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970) was an English writer, who was best known for his novels.