valentines quotes for friends

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. ~Rita Rudner



Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum



A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him. ~Martin H. Fischer



This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ~Joseph Conrad



War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? ~The Value of Families



Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. ~Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy



While the rhythm of running emphasizes a downward motion, the upward motion of skipping defies gravity and elevates my mood in the process. ~Susan Reineck, as posted on iskip.com



The body is a bundle of careful compromises. ~Randolph Nesse and George Williams, Why We Get Sick



One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard



I am a nutritional overachiever. ~Author Unknown



If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb



An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau



An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908



Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. ~Lemony Snicket



At Christmas, all roads lead home. ~Marjorie Holmes



I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure. ~E.B. White



Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~Ambrose Bierce