valentines day poems for parents

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. ~Carl Gustav Jung



Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ~Author Unknown



The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker. ~Author Unknown



A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Me carrying a briefcase is like a hot dog wearing earrings. ~Sparky Anderson



It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron



Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. ~Gene Perret



The overweight neurotic turned thin has mental weight she'll never lose. ~Terri Guillemets



Eggs cannot be unscrambled. ~American Proverb



The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know. ~Author Unknown



The Internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented. ~Author Unknown



Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller



Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~John Buchan



It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. ~Elizabeth Drew



What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? ~Gerald Barzan



Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926



What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike



Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere