poems for girls you love

A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan



We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill



I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse



It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860



Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. ~Jason Crandell, quoted in Yoga Journal, November 2005



Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown



My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex. ~Alicia Silverstone



Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ~Jessamyn West



A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. ~Jeremy Taylor



Loyd: "Exactly like that. 'Thanks for letting me sleep on your couch. I took some beer out of the refrigerator, and I broke a coffee cup. Sorry, I hope it wasn't your favorite one.'"



The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll



I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854



If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston



Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock



A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Chiastic quotation: see Chiasmus.



The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ~William Lyon MacKenzie



Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975



Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~Roman Gary