valentines poems for friends

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing. ~Lonzo Idolswine



If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~Jack Lemmon



I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round. ~Karl Kraus



I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex. ~A.C. Van Cherub



A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. ~Billie Jean King, about tennis



We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown



Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson



How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~Norman Douglas



What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire



Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~Edward R. Murrow



Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Dave Barry



Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author Unknown



The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~Antisthenes



Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. ~Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969



The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished. ~Author Unknown



Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~Buckminster Fuller, 1972



If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ~Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959



I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth



Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne



The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. ~Cecil Beaton