poems for nans

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~James Russell Lowell


Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. ~Author Unknown


Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker. ~From the movie Naked


I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~Comte de Mirabeau


The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. ~Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation


Emotion has taught mankind to reason. ~Marquis de Vauvenargues


Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov, Ivanov


God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi


There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 2


A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher


I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~Max Kauffman


Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire


Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6


There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. ~Robert Half


Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul


The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~Calvin Trillin


Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. ~Arthur Ashe


Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital... the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. ~Amory Lovins


I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ~Katherine Anne Porter