valentines poems for friends

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London



Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. ~Grey Livingston



I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more. ~Franklin Knight Lane



Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938



Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. ~Mary Baker Eddy



An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. ~Elbert Hubbard



No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. ~Thurman W. Arnold



I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke



As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell



A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~Erich Fromm (Thanks, Sarah)



Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. ~Adlai Stevenson



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



Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~Sydney J. Harris



If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. ~Author Unknown



The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo



The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King



Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires



Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990



To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post