poems for grandmothers

Nurses are patient people. ~Author Unknown



You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ~Faith Baldwin



Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. ~Author Unknown



If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass



Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse. ~Jim Murray, about Earvin Johnson



Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown



All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park. ~Curtis McDougall



I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift



A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse



He loves his country best who strives to make it best. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939



A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb



War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta



A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. ~William James



The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ~Stephen Sondheim



Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb



You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson