valentine poems for lovers

Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests."



Life is too short for traffic. ~Dan Bellack



I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau



Life's a journey, not a destination. ~Aerosmith



Mine is the night, with all her stars. ~Edward Young



We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar



You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour. ~Author uncertain, attributed to Alex Hay



All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. ~Grant Wood



Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ~Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 13 February 1959



We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ~Erwin N. Griswold



No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir



What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade



What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works." ~William Faulkner, address, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 8 June 1952



It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. ~Author Unknown



Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~Author Unknown



This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ~Elbert Hubbard



Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin



The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. ~Elliot Chaze