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• Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknow
  Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own....
• Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them
  o ruin his own fortune brings. -- William Shakespeare...
• He's a Democrat because he's too poor to be Republican.
• To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,-- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own.
  Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies?...
• He had been bitten by a dog, but didn't give it much thought until he noticed that the wound was taking a remarkably long time to heal.
  Finally, he consulted a doctor who took one look at it and ordered the dog brought in....
• FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
  When Adam long ago in Cupid's awful court (For Cupid ruled ere Adam was invented) Sued for Eve's favor, says an ancient law report, He stood and pleaded unhabilimented....
• Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send
  He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend....
• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -- William Blake