Nixon Waterman

thumb|Nixon Waterman Nixon Waterman (12 November 1859, Newark, Kendall County, Illinois – 1 September 1944, Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts) was a newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer, who rose to prominence in the 1890s. Quotes No man can feel himself aloneThe while he bravely standsBetween the best friends ever knownHis two good, honest hands. Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). 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. 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 moreThan sumptuous wreaths to the dead. A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). If I knew you and you knew me—If both of us could clearly see,And with an inner sight divineThe meaning of your heart and mineI'm sure that we would differ lessAnd clasp our hands in friendliness:Our thoughts would pleasantly agree,If I knew you and you knew me. In a Merry Mood, poem. External links WorldCat page for Nixon Waterman Category:1944 deaths Category:Poets from the United States Category:Journalists Category:People from Illinois