san valentines day poems

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)



Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown



We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley



If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb



Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer



Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. ~Song of Solomon 8:6



Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers



The pursuit of happiness: skipping is your best chance of catching it. ~Jessi Lane Adams



An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret



He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine



We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. ~Peter Drucker



The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry



Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954



If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ~Ludwig von Mises



All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti



I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~Author Unknown



Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. ~"The Villains in Blue," Time magazine, 25 August 1961



What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses



No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico