quotes and poems about love

Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation. ~Paul Carvel



The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world? ~Denis Johnston, The Brazen Horn



One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. ~Jack Handey One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Thomas Jefferson: "Yes, yes of course, we go to war and protest going to war at the same time...."



When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ~David Orr



Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. ~Sydney J. Harris



Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. ~Michael McGarel



Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale



Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ~H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920



If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman



A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. ~Elmer G. Letterman



I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. ~Thomas Jackson



The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order. ~Neville Cardus



Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A useless life is an early death. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. ~Washington Irving, History of New York



On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~George Orwell



Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~Novalis



I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com