quotes for a boyfriend
Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space. ~Gene Perret
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ~Al McGuire
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. ~Edward Flaherty
Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
God's last name is not "Dammit." ~Author Unknown
"Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;" I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born." I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre. ~Charles Babbage, letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a couplet in his "The Vision of Sin"
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom. ~William Gouge, 1622
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. ~B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard
Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ~Gaston Bachelard
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~Leo Aikman
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ~Colette
Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. ~John Clive, Not By Fact Alone
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. ~Andrew Mason