poems for lovers

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon



Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. ~Arthur Young, Travels in France, 1792



It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. ~Sandy Lyle



Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks. ~Jessi Lane Adams



I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. ~Hartman Jule



Law never made men a whit more just. ~Henry David Thoreau



Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct. ~Samuel J. Meltzer



We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. ~Henry David Thoreau



Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen



Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby



If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ~Dennis Roth



...when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny's. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23



It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia



Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. ~George Lucas



Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb



The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe