poems for boyfriends and girlfriends

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson



Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~Joe Clark



Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ~Albert Einstein



We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Chlorine: the breakfast of champions! ~Author Unknown



Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ~Frederic Chopin



Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. ~George Bancroft



These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ~Sam Snead



The common thread that binds nearly all animal species seems to be that males are willing to abandon all sense and decorum, even to risk their lives, in the frantic quest for sex. ~Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer, A Natural History of Rape



The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence. ~Walter Bauer



The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. ~St Frances de Sales



If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you are not ready to code it. ~Richard Pattis



Motto: a short expression of a guiding principle or ideal of behavior; a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use. Example: "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time." ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society



Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle. ~Matti Kuusi



Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold



America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races. ~Israel Zangwill



Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



One man's quiet is another man's din. ~Carrie Latet



People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ~Wilhelm Stekel



It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca