valentine quotes and sayings

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman



And Christ is risen today! ~George Newell Lovejoy



Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. ~Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons



Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams. ~Milan Kundera



The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo



No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb



I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry Moore



It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd



If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter



You know it's time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves. ~Quoted in The Cockle Bur



The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor. ~Author Unknown



Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter



The movie The Graduate was talking about that moment in time when you have this world of possibilities, all these expectations, and you don't know who it is you're supposed to be. And you choose this one path, Mrs. Robinson, and it turns out to be bleak, but it's part of your initiation, your trial by fire. And then, by choosing the wrong path, you find your way onto the right path, but you've created this mess. Fight Club is the Nineties inverse of that: a guy who does not have a world of possibilities in front of him, he has no possibilities, he literally cannot imagine a way to change his life. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999



Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ~Gottfried Leibniz



Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein



So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils



A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. ~Harold Hardy Godfrey, A Mathematician's Apology, 1941



We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. ~From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X