Nixon Waterman Quotes

Nixon Waterman was a newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer, who rose to prominence in the 1890s. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. November 1859 – 1. September 1944
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Famous Nixon Waterman Quotes

“Though life is made up of mere bubbles,
'T is better than many aver,
For while we've a whole lot of troubles,
The most of them never occur.”

Nixon Waterman

Shreds and Patches, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens", Benjamin Disraeli, Henrietta Temple (1837), Book 2, chapter 4; "I say the very things that make the greatest Stir / An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur", Sam Walter Foss, Things that did n't occur.

“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”

Nixon Waterman

A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“No man can feel himself alone
The while he bravely stands
Between the best friends ever known
His two good, honest hands.”

Nixon Waterman

Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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