love poems to him from her

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes (Thanks Janice!)



It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~Voltaire



Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand



Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



The more I see of men, the more I like dogs. ~Madame de Stael



I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. ~Gene Perret



Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now!



If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. ~Nadine Stair



Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax



...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. ~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?



If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer! ~John Andrew Holmes



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



Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893



My drinking team has a curling problem. ~As seen on a shirt



We need - and should encourage and honour - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. ~Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University



Scrapbooking isn't about scraps of paper and photos. Scrapbooking is about scraps of life - yours and those special to you. ~Rebecca Sower



A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. ~Caroline Bird



I knew a man who once said, "death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back." ~From the movie Gladiator



Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens