sad love quotes and poems

Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. ~Grey Livingston


I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ~Peter DeVries


Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. ~Author Unknown


I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. ~Christiaan Barnard


If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy. ~Bobby Knight


People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893


Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. ~Benjamin Franklin


Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are. ~Nikolaus Laszlo, Nora Ephron, and Delia Ephron, You've Got Mail


Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. ~Leigh Hunt


The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ~E.W. Howe


Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ~Lord Chesterfield


When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. ~George Boas


I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir


A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated


Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown


The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. ~Russell Page


History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ~George Santayana


Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Denis Waitely