poems for girls you like

To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl's faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends. ~Edwin Lillie Miller, 1938, Explorations in Literature, about Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Sam)



As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ~Voltaire



As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. ~Peter Minard



When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca



We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857



In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~Bertrand Russell



Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. ~Albert Payson Terhune



Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844



What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown



It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin



Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St Vincent Millay



You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world. ~Herman Melville



Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? ~Philip G. Hamerton



Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ~Guy de Maupassant



It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean Cocteau



History is the propaganda of the victors. ~Ernst Toller



People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown