valentines poems for friends

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ~George Eliot



Better than silence is? ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra. ~Cliff Raven



Sometimes I have to stand on my head to see things as they are, when the world seems so upside-down that this is the only position in which anything makes sense. ~Author Unknown



Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ~Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo"



There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau



There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard



When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ~Octave Mirbeau



I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. ~Nancie J. Carmody



All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887



Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley



Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ~Anton Chekov



Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers. ~Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour



We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. ~Robert Sweetgall



Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947



The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. ~James Robertson



The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate



Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have be a pair of socks? ~Terence Winter, The Sopranos, "The Ride," original airdate 7 May 2006, spoken by the character Tony Soprano You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart. And so, having collected your mind within you, lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and, together with this inhaled air, force your mind to descend into the heart and to remain there. ~Nicephorus the Solitary

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