valentines day quotes and pictures

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. ~Jules Champfleury



Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. ~Martin H. Fischer



I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ~Norman Brown



Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts. Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all. This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water. ~Author Unknown



One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence



It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb



I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~Author Unknown



Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588



Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir



The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow



A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ~Franz Kafka



I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln



I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13



No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ~Margaret Sanger



Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan



Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891



Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape. It invades my body against my will, and it's not fair. ~Patty Young