poems for valentines day

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? ~Pam Brown



The first time the duchess halted by my side, I whispered to her to calm her gushing spirits, not to meddle with her dress, and for public opinion's sake, not to step so high. I said she could get over just as much ground at a moderate gait; and, beside the noble grand duke, her father, might happen along at any moment. I might as well have talked to the wind. She only laughed that characteristic laugh of hers that silvery laugh that I could recognize anywhere if I were to the leeward, and then, bending a little, she grabbed up the sides of her apparel with both hands, began to jerk it to and fro in a violent manner, threw her magnificent head back and skipped furiously away on an Irish jig step, all excitement, wild hilarity, distracted costume, frenzied motion! A spectacle to seal the eye-balls and to astonish the soul of a hermit! ~Mark Twain (unconfirmed), Atlanta Daily Constitution, 28 February 1878, "The Fascinating Duchess"



Dreams, and predictions of astrology.... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Prophecies"



In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. ~Henry Brooke



Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown



Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen



Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ~Lord Chesterfield



Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air. ~Jim Murray



We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. ~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. ~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off



Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. ~Ramsey Clark



It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. ~Malcolm X



We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut



I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln



When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. ~Bill Lemley



It's like being hit up the arse by a rainbow. ~Rod Eddington, about being lucky



We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. ~J.K. Rowling, "A Sluggish Memory," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~Robert Southey, The Doctor