love poems for her from him

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the people. ~Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," 1884



Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon



I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. ~Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News



...when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny's. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23



The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. ~Psalms 90:12



You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ~James A. Froude



If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey



The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. ~Garrett Hardin



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



The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. ~Gertrude S. Wister



If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~Carl Sagan



There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen



A poem begins with a lump in the throat. ~Robert Frost



Some defeats are more triumphant than victories. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588



No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. ~Frederica Mathewes-Green



Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732



We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem



I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge, 1962



Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ~Harry Vardon