happy valentines day quotes for a friend

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ~Michael Burke



Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley



When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose. ~Terri Guillemets



The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. ~William S. Burroughs



Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb



Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson



Inspiration: a peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God. ~Voltaire



Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before... ~Philippians 3:13



It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. ~Igor Stravinsky



Procrastination is the thief of time. ~Edward Young Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience. ~Luke Neely, 1953



I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke



You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson



Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson



Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943



I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. ~Gene Perret



Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes. ~Eric T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics



They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~Author Unknown



Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou