san valentines day poems

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. ~Peggy Noonan



Women may be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships. ~James Shubert



Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark



There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters... I could be their leader. ~Charlie Brown



The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Terri Guillemets



Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ~H.L. Mencken



Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. ~Truman Capote



There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of the species. ~Mark Twain



I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation. ~Rev. Jerry Falwell



If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. ~Robert Fulghum



Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Proverb



One of irony's greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself. ~Anonymous



Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. ~Aldous Huxley



A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988



I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up. ~From the television show Will and Grace



The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. ~Russell Baker, New York Times, 1 May 1969



On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge



All I've got against it is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse. ~Eric Linklater, Poet's Pub, 1929



How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it. ~Sakyong Mipham