quotes from valentines day

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton



If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart



Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~Philip Henry



Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me." ~Louise Bernikow



The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. ~Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908



The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky



By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~Socrates



We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo



As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." ~U Thant, speech, 1970



Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. ~Author Unknown



By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. ~Agesilaus



The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. ~Marya Mannes



I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. ~James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604



Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. ~Vachel Lindsay



Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. ~Epictetus



If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong. ~Pat Parelli



With a butterfly kiss and a ladybug hug, sleep tight little one like a bug in a rug. ~Author Unknown