poems for love

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain



We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac



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



Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle. ~Henry Ward Beecher



If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. ~Paul Gallico



A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ~W.C. Fields



After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays



Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916



There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau



Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals



Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. ~Chinese Saying



Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ~Lewis Mumford, in Anne Chisholm, Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists, 1972



The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. ~Kuan Yin



Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas



Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858



We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. ~Alexander Pope



Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. ~Charles Medawar



History is concerned primarily with human phenomena, not with natural; and history is doubly human because, as an idea, it is man's creation, challenging him to transcend the limits of information about himself and to discover what he is by finding meaning in what he has done. In short, it is man's commentary on man. ~John Barker, The Superhistorians