love you poems for her

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. ~Abraham Lincoln



Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ~Bertrand Russell



Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. ~John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667



Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ~Ambrose Bierce



God's glowing covenant. ~Hosea Ballou (rainbow)



Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis



You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran



A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen



My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ~e.e. cummings



The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. ~David Gerrold The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown



The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer



When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes. ~Don Drysdale, 1978



You must lose a fly to catch a trout. ~George Herbert



Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. ~Chinese Saying



Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers." ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50



The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. ~Henry David Thoreau



The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ~John Locke



Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872