quotes and poems about love

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ~Jerome K. Jerome



Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. ~Laurence J. Peter



Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Nicolas de Chamfort



When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~Tuli Kupferberg



The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner. ~Author Unknown



Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes. ~Author Unknown



The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. ~John J. Welsh



The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. ~Colleen McCullough



Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail



If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard



If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke



By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series. ~Steve Rushin



God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task, 1785



This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 2



To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ~Stephen Baker



To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ~William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters



To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com