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Epitaph on James Grieve

Robert Burns

HERE lies Boghead amang the dead
In hopes to get salvation;
But if such as he in Heav’n may be,
Then welcome, hail! damnation.




Quotes of the Day

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
• George Carlin


Poems of the Day
  • Shel Silverstein
    God's Wheel
    by Shel Silverstein
    GOD says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" "Okay," says I, "I'll give it a try. Where do I set? How much do I get?