love quotes on valentine

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley



Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant



Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown



There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette



Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ~Lewis Grizzard



Et al: (1) used as an abbreviation of et alii (masculine plural) or et aliae (feminine plural) or et alia (neutral plural) when referring to a number of people, et al., and others; (2) used as an abbreviation of et alibi when referring to other occurrences in a text, et al., and elsewhere.



The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. ~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990



I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir



The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. ~Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967



It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station. ~Michael Herr



When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. ~Joseph Joubert



Oaths are the fossils of piety. ~George Santayana



Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale



The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. ~Red Smith



Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. ~Attributed to Douglas MacArthur



I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977



I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace



The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all. ~Frank Dorrance Hopley



Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. ~Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969