love poems by shakespeare
History, like thermodynamics, won't let you out. ~Ira Haron
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~Mark Twain
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. ~Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match!
In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold," Mr. Spock
Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts. ~Author Unknown
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~Thomas Jefferson
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate. ~Graham Greene
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton
The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale
Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet. ~Author Unknown
Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~Baxter Bell, quoted in "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006
Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead. ~Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics, 1977
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~Peg Bracken
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ~Samuel Butler, "Prose Observations"
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. ~John F. Kennedy
I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called "the fierce urgency of now." Because I believe that there's such a thing as being too late. And that hour is almost upon us. ~Barack Obama, Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, 2007 Nov 10