quotes and poems about love

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren



When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. ~H.G. Wells, 1935



A good pun is its own reword. ~Author Unknown



Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill



When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thanks, Marlene)



Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett



To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. ~Hippocrates



In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~Jose Narosky



The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956



With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Notebook L," Aphorisms



Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young



When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb



Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. ~Satchel Paige



No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. ~Thurman W. Arnold



I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot



Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. ~Albert Smith (clouds)



To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post



Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus



The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. ~Natalie Wood