love poems for a girlfriend

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893



Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. ~Ambrose Bierce



Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp



Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne



When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel



To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega



Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. ~James Matthew Barrie



Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown. ~Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune



All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot



It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney



The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. ~Irving Babbitt



Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ~John Barrymore



A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ~William R. Inge



The first requisite for immortality is death. ~Stanislaw J. Lec



If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa



When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. ~Indian Saying



No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ~H.L. Mencken



Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XV "Hester and Pearl"



You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ~Jawaharlal Nehru



Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley