love poems for mums

"Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!" He picked a ranunculus which gently swayed its golden head above the grass beside him, and with infinite delicacy, slowly and amorously, he turned it between his fat red fingers, from which the dried blood scaled off in places: "Isn't it adorable?" he repeated, looking at it. "It's so little, so fragile, and besides, it's all of nature; all the beauty and power of nature. It contains the world. A puny and relentless organism which goes straight to the goal of its desire! Ah, milady, flowers do not indulge in sentiment. They indulge in passion, nothing but passion. And they make love all the time, and in every fashion. They think of nothing else; and how right they are! Perverse? Because they obey the only law of life; because they are satisfied with the only need of life, which is love? But consider, milady, the flower is only a reproductive organ. Is there anything healthier, stronger, or more beautiful than that? These marvelous petals, those silks, these velvets... these soft, supple, and caressing materials are the curtains of the alcove, the draperies of the bridal chamber, the perfumed bed where they unite, where they pass their ephemeral and immortal life, swooning with love. What an admirable example for us!" ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare



When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~Susan Heller



Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. ~Napoleon I



The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~Jules Renard



No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism. ~Charles R. Poinsatte, Understanding History Through the American Experience



Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. ~Pope John XXIII



Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. ~Edgar Wallace



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



Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson



When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. ~Samuel Johnson



Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin



It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli



I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam



If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise. ~Author Unknown



Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill



Out with the cold, in with the woo. ~E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"



Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit. ~Jonathan Winters



Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ~H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920