quotes for valentines day

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~Don Marquis



And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde



Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~Sophia Loren



Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ~Ernest Hemingway



Skipping is oxygen for the soul. ~Jessi Lane Adams



To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. ~Horace



What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces. ~Wendie Malick



What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ~Christopher Morley



I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~Leo Buscaglia



You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~Doug Floyd



While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. ~Lady Bird Johnson



Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. ~Kin Hubbard



Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. ~Alex Levine



Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Terri Guillemets



The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ~Fred Woodworth