love and friendship quotes and poems

Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier



Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. ~Donna Gephart



It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane



Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. ~Margaret Mitchell



When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ~Norm Crosby



There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown



The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what's been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga - the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body - you initiate a process that turns the fight-or-flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms. ~Richard Faulds



Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain



We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898



A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter



If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~Frederick Douglass



This is what the Republicans are calling a Wizard of Oz ticket. You see, Cheney needs a heart, Bush needs a brain. ~Jay Leno



Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. ~Warfield Theobald Longcope



The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. ~Margaret Smith



Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ~Andre Norton



Virtue is its own revenge. ~E.Y. Harburn



No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ~H.L. Mencken No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? ~Henry Finck



Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~Voltaire