valentines day poems in spanish

Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles



Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ~Bertrand Russell



Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ~King Charles I



How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor! ~Colette



The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder



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"



Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck



He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. ~Adrienne Cook



Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all. ~Catherine Marshall, Christy, 1967



Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable. ~Grey Livingston



Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! ~Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist



Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk



The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracian



You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~George Orwell