happy valentines day poems for dads

Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself. ~Author Unknown



Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. ~Steve Bluestone



Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ~Saint Augustine



Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. ~Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897



The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald



All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. ~Li Ka Shing



The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. ~Margorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under



If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp



Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz



Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951



The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. ~Author Unknown



To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. ~Barry M. Goldwater and Jack Casserly, Goldwater



A genuine tattoo.... tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don't tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they're just there for decoration, then they're not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they're not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there's no mistakes. ~Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000



Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ~Simone Weil



Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused. ~Ernest Greenwood



In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ~Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, 1948



Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~Brendan Francis



We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. ~Bryan White



I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams