love poems background
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Books," Society and Solitude
I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~Jean Cocteau
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. ~Joann Thomas
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~W.H. Auden
For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman
There does not now, nor will there ever exist, a programming language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs. ~Lawrence Flon
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ~Dogen
If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you. ~Author Unknown
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881
The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on. ~Author Unknown
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
Literary: of, relating to, or dealing with literature.
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown
