happy valentines day love quotes

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. ~Alexander Smith



Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ~Alistair Cooke



A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman



Long A: No, but here is where I am and am not:



Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? ~J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. ~Helen Rowland



I don't like watching golf on TV. I can't stand whispering. ~David Brenner



Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore



One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. ~James Thurber



The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. ~Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos



Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth Russell



He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus



Dick Cheney had a mild heart attack, but they say he'll soon be able to resume his regular activities. I thought having heart attacks was his regular activity. Anyway, since he's a Republican, the heart isn't a major organ. ~Jay Leno



Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn't. ~Bob Morris



Tears are Summer showers to the soul. ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola



Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science. ~Martin H. Fischer



Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can't hold back. ~Author Unknown



All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. ~D.H. Lawrence, "Peace and War," Pansies, 1929



History, that excitable and unreliable old lady. ~Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau



Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. ~Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941