cute happy valentines day quotes

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason


All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. ~John Berger


He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Misanthrope


Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans. ~Martin H. Fischer


If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. ~John Burroughs


The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ~Rona Barrett


Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.


One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate


The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive. ~John Morley, Notes on Politics and History


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


What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? ~W.H. Auden


I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. ~Author Unknown


I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, M*A*S*H, "Identity Crisis,"


For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1758


A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving


It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~Author unknown, quoted in Sunshine magazine


You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. ~Russell Chatham, Silent Seasons, 1978


A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. ~Helen Rowland


Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. ~Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996