poems for love

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi



A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. ~Judith Merkle Riley



I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese (@DitaVonTeese), May 7, 2009 on Twitter



Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain



Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~Bertrand Russell



The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. ~Rabindranath Tagore



When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids. ~Chuck Mills



When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen



Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets



You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ~Uncle Remus



Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~Sophia Loren



Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961 Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ~Logan Clendening



Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb



Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown



When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me! ~Author Unknown



Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion



He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588