i love you nana poems

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb



To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ~Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995



The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ~Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism



A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. ~Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy



History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. ~Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture



Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard



What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways



Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. ~Vita Sackville-West



The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~Lin Yutang



I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1



I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn



If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? ~E.Y. Harburg



Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. ~Bertrand Russell



Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust



Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related. ~J.C. Watts, Jr.



There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings



Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. ~Robert Heinlein



A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. ~George S. Patton



Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. ~Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994



Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920