love poems for valentines day

Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken



I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin



Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. ~Art Buchwald, "How Un-American Can You Get?," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966



If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. ~Oscar Wilde



One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers... ~Heinrich Hertz



The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. ~Guy Lombardo



A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



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



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



Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ~Orson Scott Card



Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ~Emil Ludwig



Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? ~Author Unknown



Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993



I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. ~Gene Perret



Sisterhood is powerful. ~Robin Morgan



America: Where a little thing like a majority won't get in the way of democracy! ~Author Unknown



The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~Monica Baldwin