life and love poems

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin


I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball


Honk if you hate noise pollution. ~Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker


If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ~Mary Astell


The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. ~Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty


We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses


Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims


If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston


A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. ~John Holmes


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn


Go and wake up your luck. Persian Saying


Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon


A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout... ~Paul O'Neil


A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it. ~Author Unknown


Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford... but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an Idiota or common person, no great things, melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers, fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with Natura her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, Belvideres, on a sudden the goddesse herself Truth has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as yee may not be able lightly to resist her. ~Charles Lamb


The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. ~Malcolm Forbes


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb


I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854