valentines day love poems

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne



When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ~Abel Stevens



I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Sex is God's joke on human beings. ~Bette Davis



What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb



Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. ~Russell Baker



Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. ~Catherine of Aragon, 1535 Later never exists. ~Author Unknown



Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. ~Katherine Mansfield



The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. ~F.K. Richtmeyer



What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. ~Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960



Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2. ~Fred Blechman



The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown



God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~Saint Augustine



I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more. ~Franklin Knight Lane



A cat pours his body on the floor like water. ~William Lyon Phelps



Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~Jules Renard



The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up



Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore



Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ~Author Unknown