love poems by shakespeare

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks



We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. ~Mark Victor Hansen



People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917



Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ~Thomas Henry Huxley



When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain



The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891



The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. ~Philip James Bailey



A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown



Promise is most given when the least is said. ~George Chapman



When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire



The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. ~William Strong



Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother



We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ~Honore de Balzac



A person is neither whole nor healthy without the memories of photo albums. They are the storybook of our lives. They provide a nostalgic escape from the tormented days of the present. ~Patrick Garry



After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. ~Bill Kelly, "Mordillo"



The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats



Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? ~Walter Scott



Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ~Leo Stein



Pitchers, like poets, are born not made. ~Cy Young