poemas de amistad y amor

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ~Leo Buscaglia


There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An "education" that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must "teach" by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny. ~Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, September 1982


We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge


During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb


I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~Sydney Smith


Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator


I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. ~John Terraine


Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. ~Sydney J. Harris


The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. ~Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871


The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. ~Amy Webster


There's such a thin line between winning and losing. ~John R. Tunis


Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit. ~William Shakespeare


Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ~Richard Nixon


You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. ~Amelia Earhart


Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover


I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ~Boris Pasternak


It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. ~Lucimar Santos de Lima


I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. ~Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape