short valentines day poems for mom

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock



The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ~Baltasar Gracian



Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method. ~Author Unknown



We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln



Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree. ~Michael Crichton, Timeline



A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. ~Charles Baudelaire, "Advice to Young Writers," 1867



When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart



Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown



I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger. ~Author Unknown



Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter, "The Price of Tomato Juice"



If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ~One of Murphy's Laws of Technology



These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it. ~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993



It's hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas. ~Cinnamon Stomberger



Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891



The highest virtue here may be least in another world. ~Kahlil Gibran



May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown



The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb



Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ~Gene Mauch



If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. ~Stephan Girard



It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897