why i love you so much poems

I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans



Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?"



A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. ~Llewelyn Powers



Worthless people blame their karma. ~Burmese Proverb



Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ~Sydney J. Harris



This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~Dalai Lama



When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form. ~Christine Northrup



Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. ~John Hardwick



Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ~Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924



Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine



It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it. ~Susan Howatch



In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. ~Joan Didion



I don't rent space to anyone in my head. ~Anonymous man on Candid Camera, answering Allen Funt's question about why he had not gotten upset



A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. ~Kin Hubbard



If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist�s office would be full of luminous ideas. ~Mason Cooley



If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen



I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody. ~Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962



Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. ~Michel de Montaigne