friendship poems for valentines day
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ~Exodus 23:8
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. ~Mark Twain
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. ~Lord Halifax
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ~Judith Martin
I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. ~Martha Harrison
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. ~Gil Bailie
Curling rocks! ~Saying of the sport
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. ~Francis C. Farley
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. ~Carl G. Jung
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ~James Russell Lowell
God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ~George Wildman Ball
You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. ~Russell Chatham, Silent Seasons, 1978
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. ~Marcus Dolengo
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. ~Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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