rip poems for grandma

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it. ~John Sherman



One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington



Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes. ~Author Unknown



Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie



God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb



A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. ~Jack London



Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown



One man's folly is another man's wife. ~Helen Rowland



America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benet



As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown



Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~Erich Fromm



When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb



If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown



All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis



An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb



Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks. ~Author Unknown



I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. ~Walt Whitman