poems for boyfriends and girlfriends

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ~Steven Wright



Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ~Andrew V. Mason



Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. ~Le Corbusier



Justice is incidental to law and order. ~John Edgar Hoover



There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp



It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ~Colette, My Mother's House, 1922



It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. ~Charles Simmons



Property has its duties as well as its rights. ~Thomas Drummond



There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ~Robert Frost



Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. ~George Steiner



Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again. ~Lon Hinkle



The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey



Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~George Balanchine



Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein



In war, truth is the first casualty. ~Aeschylus (Thanks, Dan)



Why do married men gain weight while bachelors don't? Bachelors go to the refrigerator, see nothing they want, then go to bed. Married guys go to the bed, see nothing they want, then go to the refrigerator. ~Author Unknown



No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin



We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams