feliz dia de san valentin poemas

You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... ~Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, "Birds - And a Caution" (Thanks, Corinne)


There is no such thing as a little garlic. ~A. Baer


If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp


We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana


On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ~Elizabeth Bowen


Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~St. Augustine


Life begins at retirement. ~Author Unknown


Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley


Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections


I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye


A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ~Helen Rowland


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa


Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened. ~R. Lerner, letter, Sierra, March-April 1991


Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau


The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George Patton


We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud


I'm so poor I can't even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle, 1987


Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce