valentines day poems for friends

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy



Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. ~Author Unknown



We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ~Mark Twain



The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. ~Samuel Johnson



My garden is my favorite teacher. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. ~Oliver Goldsmith I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ~Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911



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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran



Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead



Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly



Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. ~Author Unknown



Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. ~H.G. Wells



When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark." ~Steven Moffat, Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000



Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~Marcel Proust



Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe



No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. ~John Milton



The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis. ~Beatrice & Ira Freeman



You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown



There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore



There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"