dark love poems

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



No man is free who is not a master of himself. ~Epictetus



Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. ~Albert Einstein



Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain



Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big. ~Attributed to both Audrey Snead and Chi Chi Rodriguez



Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades



Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole. ~Judy Carter



The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain



Journalism is organized gossip. ~Edward Egglestone



Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. ~Samuel Johnson



You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. ~Franklin P. Jones



One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung



The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~Dorothy Nevill



The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather



Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb



He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert



If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart. ~Alan Devoe



An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination. ~Ralph Seger