i miss you friend poems

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"



My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~A.A. Milne



A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor



Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend



I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano



If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Gramma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo while I asked, "No, how are we alike?" "You're both old," he replied. ~Author Unknown



I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. ~Terri Guillemets



A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. ~Michael Oakeshott, On History



Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love. ~Author Unknown



Let me ask you something, what is not art? ~Author Unknown



The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie



When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes. ~Paige Rense



The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~Marcus Aurelius



The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. ~Hardy Amies



When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran



It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown

quotes about your ex boyfriend

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. ~John Stuart Mill



Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Author Unknown



The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells." ~Author Unknown



We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on! ~Author Unknown



He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. ~Daniel J. Boorstin



Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown



You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams



Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion



Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. ~Benjamin Lichtenberg



If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ~Sam Snead



It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. ~Frederick Phillips



A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920



Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~Thomas Dekker



Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr



If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ~Sam Levenson



Human-like creatures have existed on this planet for as long as four million years, and for roughly 99 percent of this time, they were hunters and gatherers.... This means that when we're sitting down to lunch, our stone-age bodies "expect" to be fed the same types and ratios of fat that nourished our cave-dwelling ancestors. When we eat French fries cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oil instead of wild plants; or wolf down a fat-laden hamburger heaped with mayonnaise instead of meat from a lean, free-ranging game animal, our bodies register the insult. ~Artemis P. Simopoulos and Jo Robinson, The Omega Diet, 1999

emma watson quotes

Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. ~Mikhael Dominico



We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes



Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. ~Li Ka Shing



Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster



The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, "I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional?" or "Was this creature blinded in a fight?" They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus



For years it has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. ~Erma Bombeck, about her wedding ring



Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers



Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke



One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb



A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. ~Hazel Nicholson



Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ~Hosea Ballou



A house needs a grandma in it. ~Louisa May Alcott



I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern



A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. ~Gerald Raferty



Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ~Sam Austin



One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. ~Dale Carnegie



If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese

imagenes de amor verdadero

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus. ~G.B. Shaw, Androcles and the Lion, 1912



As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza. ~From the movie Die Hard 2, spoken by the character John McClane regarding technological advances, screenplay by Steven E. de Souza and Doug Richardson, based on the novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager



How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo



Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating



The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman



I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them. ~John Barrow, 1973



Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality. ~Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964



What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ~Joseph Addison



Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! ~Thomas Carlyle



When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal. ~Mac O'Grady



Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb



The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis



Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor. ~Abe Lemons



Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. ~Ambrose Bierce



In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. ~Author Unknown



They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius



An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold H. Glasgow



Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ~H.L. Mencken



The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere



We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams

quotes on fear

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine



Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling. ~Author Unknown



You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Marge Simpson



I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. ~Steven Wright



Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson



A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. ~Edgar A. Shoaff



We have met the enemy and they are us! ~Walt Kelly, Pogo, 1971



A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. ~R.D. Laing



Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb



The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. ~D.H. Lawrence



I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ~Don Marquis I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent



Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin



Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain



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



You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways. You may lose your house, your wife and other treasures. But of your moko, you cannot be deprived except by death. It will be your ornament and companion until your last day. ~Netana Whakaari of Waimana



What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. ~Author Unknown What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1



Curling... when you can tell your lady that she is wide without fear of getting whacked upside the head with a cast iron pan. Or proclaim out loud that she is too heavy, knowing that your comment has been heard by countless bystanders. Where you can order your better half to sweep, sweep hard, and having the never before seen result of actually seeing her gutting it out just to please you! For in curling, you are the king of the house! ~Author Unknown



God and angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers. ~Cherishe Archer



I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

love poems for broken hearts

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau



The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903



It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



A horse is poetry in motion. ~Author Unknown



Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard



It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ~Manitonquat



Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963



Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ~Jean Cocteau



You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis



Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. ~Ecclesiastes 12:7



Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~Kin Hubbard



A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. ~John Holmes



Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future. ~T.A. Sachs



California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. ~J.B. Priestley



They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. ~Edward Westcott



I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau



Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ~Ellen Frankfort



Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid, Tristia



Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. ~Author Unknown



To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial. ~Author Unknown To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Williston Fish

sad love poems for him

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ~Hilaire Belloc



I would prefer not to. ~Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"



Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain



Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



Sex is emotion in motion. ~Mae West



Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ~Don Marquis



You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~Timothy Leary



The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov



A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson



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



No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. ~Rabbi Sofer



The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up



Benjamin Franklin: "I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight, to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both."



Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong. ~Author Unknown



The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. ~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899



A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. ~Andre Malraux



Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. ~Lenora Mattingly Weber



Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~Hugh Sidey



Murphy was an optimist. ~O'Toole's Commentary

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

alone quotes

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ~Alfred North Whitehead



The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ~Author Unknown



Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ~Aldous Huxley



Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Indian Proverb



The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso



There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold



The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. ~Ellie Rodriguez



It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. ~Abraham Lincoln



While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work. ~Author Unknown



Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb



Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955



A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ~Franklin P. Jones



Let me ask you something, what is not art? ~Author Unknown



It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron



Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up. ~Author Unknown



For many are called, but few are chosen. ~Matthew 22:14



Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ~Proverbs 6:27



The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. ~Ecclesiastes 5:12



A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter



I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick? ~Mitch Hedberg