valentine love poems

If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry? ~Author Unknown



What a sink of madness is man's mind! ~"The Mission," Chapter 8



When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ~David Orr



I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~Steven Wright



The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ~Henry Fosdick



Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard



The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary. ~An English Lord Chief Justice, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy



There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills



Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Rejected Statement, Part I," The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911



We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge



Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun. ~Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay," performed by Rihanna



This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder. ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"



Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. ~Mark Twain



We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. ~Frank A. Clark



The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they'll settle for a puppy every time. ~Winston Pendelton



Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ~Pubilius Syrus



Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~Carl Sandburg



The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Walter Lippmann



The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. ~Frances Rodman



Masha: "I am in mourning for my life."