love poems for teenagers

Is there life before death? ~Author Unknown



Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ~Arnold Toynbee



While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson



Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~Leo Rosten



I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893



A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown



A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. ~Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900



If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper



Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee. ~Alexander King



Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ~Astrid Alauda



Given enough coffee, I could rule the world. ~Author Unknown



If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley



There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ~James Thurber



Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. ~William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838



Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ~Samuel Johnson



For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~Georges Rouault



To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne



The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. ~Jennifer Yane



The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. ~Colleen McCullough