happy valentines day poems for friends

Property has its duties as well as its rights. ~Thomas Drummond



Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937



Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems. ~Helen M. Winslow



Poured a cup of hot sepia coffee in a wisteria flowered mug, dandelion sunshine spilling through the periwinkle sky. ~Terri Guillemets



Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb



For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ~Clifton Fadiman



The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



At the rate we're going, the Inaugural Ball is going to be a surprise party. ~Argus Hamilton



All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet. ~Karl Kron, Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle



Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team. ~Luis Suarez



Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain



The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb



A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ~Carl Sagan



Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002



A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. ~William C. Feather



We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi