poems for the one you love

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



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



If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons



The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness. ~Patricia Dale-Green



There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~Author Unknown



Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ~Irwin Corey



Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins



A dirty book is rarely dusty. ~Author Unknown



Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. ~Proverb



Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument! ~Justin Winsor



Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon



The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. ~Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works



Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26 Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. ~Colette, Gigi, 1944, translated



Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France



For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ~Fr. Alfred D'Souza



Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda



The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie, L'Homme Machine



You know, I have never understood the male obsession with lesbianism - a whole area of sex with nothing for them to do. Just answered my own question, haven't I? ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally



The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis



Janie's a pretty typical teenager - angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. ~Alan Ball, American Beauty, 1999