love poems short

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary



Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer



Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ~Arthur Baer



The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ~Ray Bradbury



If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ~Abigail Van Buren



Adultery is the application of democracy to love. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920



This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III



Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian



As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy



An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold H. Glasgow



Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer



Ah gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ~From the television show The Big Bang Theory, written by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Robert Cohen, and Dave Goetsch, "The Big Bran Hypothesis"



A primary role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort are not necessarily associated with food. ~Author Unknown



I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. ~Raymond Chandler



A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ~Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in Liberty and the Great Libertarians



You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?! ~Author Unknown



A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978



An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr



To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books



He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ~Jonathan Swift He was a common man expanded into giant proportions; well acquainted with the people, he placed his hand on the beating pulse of the nation, judged of its disease and was ready with a remedy. ~Joshua Speed