poems for mom in spanish

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb


Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale


The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ~Arthur Schopenhauer


The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. ~Thich Nhat Hanh


I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. ~T.S. Eliot


Kittens can happen to anyone. ~Paul Gallico


That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. ~Robert T. Pirsig


The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957


U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp


During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones


The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. ~Ellie Rodriguez, @sapphiremoon13


There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore


A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. ~Lord Halifax


I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands. ~E.B. White


I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan, on zone defense


As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979


Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ~Calvin Coolidge