happy valentines day poems for mom

Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy. ~Author Unknown



A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ~Joseph Campbell



Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way. It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names. ~Paul Graham, "Hackers and Painters," 2003



He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Misanthrope



We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ~Will Rogers



Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets



Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. ~Garrett Hazel



Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~Victor Hugo



I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~John Cage



It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ~Balzac, Physiologie du mariage, 1829



It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~Mahatma Gandhi



I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. ~Alan J. Perlis



I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. ~Richard Steele



Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. ~Jean Cocteau



Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. ~Benjamin R. Barber



I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. ~Attributed to both Miller Barber and Lee Trevino



Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. ~Bob Garfield



The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell



What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln