valentines love poems

If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ~Anonymous Teacher If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. ~Cicero


To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ~William James


A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ~Ethel Wilson


It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes


As ye sew, so shall ye rip. ~Author Unknown


A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. ~Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America


Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ~Anatole France


It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692


If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ~Lenny Bruce


Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! ~St Jerome


Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. ~-Steven Wright


Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan


Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~Thomas Gray


It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde


Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks


I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me. ~Jane Rule


Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people. ~W.C. Fields


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein