love poems for him from the heart
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok
I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ~Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965
Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory. ~Author Unknown
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. ~George E. Woodberry
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. ~Thomas Paine
I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. ~Charles Osgood
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. ~Robert Fulghum
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne
Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! ~Martin H. Fischer
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. ~Jean-Paul Aron
Much of your pain is self-chosen. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923