poems for valentines

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg


Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. ~Author Unknown


A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732


A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author Unknown


Vacuums don't clean houses. People clean houses. ~Everybody Loves Raymond, "Humm Vac," written by Lew Schneider, original airdate 19 March 2001, spoken by the character Marie Barone


The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet. ~Proverb


Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator


The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo


We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ~Arthur Hoppe


The trick is growing up without growing old. ~Casey Stengel


He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ~Mary Wilson Little


When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner


They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ~Terri Guillemets


I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)


I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ~Lucan


I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain


It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~Remy de Gourmont


It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ~Hank Aaron, 1971


Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don't decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want. ~Marni Jackson


I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. ~Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980