poems for nana

My heart is glass, daily shattered. ~Jaesse Tyler



Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~St. Jerome, Attack on Jovinian



When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown



When Hell freezes over, I'll play hockey there too. ~Author Unknown



Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around. ~Nancy Dedera



God and angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers. ~Cherishe Archer



From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. ~S.M. Crothers



Drawing is putting a line round an idea. ~Henri Matisse



Scriptures: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. ~Ambrose Bierce



People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son



It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard



Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ~Ecclesiastes 1:2



Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren



The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. ~Sigmund Freud, attributed



Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. ~William Ralph Inge



I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine



Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. ~Hippocrates



Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990



Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~Michel de Montaigne Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb



The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. ~Gertrude S. Wister