quotes about valentines

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott



Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. ~Jim Bishop, "On the English Countryside," NY Journal-American, 28 September 1957, quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations compiled by James B. Simpson



Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~Author Unknown



When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split. ~Raymond Chandler



The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith



If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~Mencius



I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ~Martha Graham, c.1953



May it please Heaven that his example shall continue to serve as a beacon to our Republics in their darkest moments of doubt and adversity. ~Jorge Ubico



Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ~Proverbs 26:27



I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding. ~Amy Yasbeck



It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. ~Arthur Conan Doyle



Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James



After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. ~Cynthia Ozick, The Paris Review After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan



The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! ~Walter Winchell



Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Tom Stoppard



Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. ~Le Corbusier



If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic



It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1



The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. ~Jose Simons