valentines day quotes

Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. ~Psalms 104:2-5



Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke



If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce



The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun. ~P.G. Wodehouse



Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown



Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust



A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain



If Obama sees his shadow tomorrow, do we get six more years of Bush? ~Dave Beard



I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was. ~Henry Miller, My Bike and Other Friends



It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings. ~William Shakespeare



Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620



Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~Montaigne



When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. ~Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard



History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel



Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. ~Joan Winmill Brown



If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~J.K. Rowling, "Padfoot Returns," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Sirius Black



It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ~Thomas More, Utopia sic



Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~Abraham Lincoln



Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. ~Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897 If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde