love poems for girlfriends

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ~Franklin Pierce Adams



If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron



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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley



When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton



Friendship is Love, without his wings. ~Lord Byron, L'Amitie est l'Amour sans Ailes



This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman



One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt



There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy



A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir



Ah, the things we would do if we could - especially in the secure knowledge that we can't. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb



Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~Gordon R. Dickson



It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling. ~Mark Twain



To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ~W.E.B. DuBois



History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~Harold MacMillan



A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991



Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine