rabindranath tagore poems

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XII "The Minister�s Vigil"



Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel." ~The Washington Post



If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory. ~W.S. Franklin



College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ~George Gobel



Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky



I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller



I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler



Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. ~Mark Twain



A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan



There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw



A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. ~Author Unknown



Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher



One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. ~M.M. Coady



The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~Voltaire



Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams



I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. ~Eli Khamarov, America Explained!



One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~Andre Gide



I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it." ~Dilys Laing, "Miao"