love poems by famous poets

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley



We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin



What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864



Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale



I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ~Fred Couples



I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still



A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life



A neurotic's problems are invisible to others - and to himself, as well. ~Terri Guillemets



We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive



Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ~Clarence Day, The Crow's Nest



A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. ~William Hooke



Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900



It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ~Manitonquat



Life's too short for chess. ~Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874



Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. ~Lewis C. Henry



If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards



There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938



I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver



One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens. ~Pete Alfano



When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world. ~Author Unknown